No tabs when pointing Console2 to Cygwin

What am I doing wrong?

C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -

mintty.exe is a terminal that has it's own window.

It is not designed to run inside a window belonging to another program.

$ mintty --help
Usage: mintty [OPTION]... [ PROGRAM [ARG]... | - ]

Start a new terminal session running the specified program or the user's shell.
If a dash is given instead of a program, invoke the shell as a login shell.

Options:
  -c, --config FILE     Load specified config file
  -e, --exec            Treat remaining arguments as the command to execute
  -h, --hold never|start|error|always  Keep window open after command finishes
  -i, --icon FILE[,IX]  Load window icon from file, optionally with index
  -l, --log FILE|-      Log output to file or stdout
  -o, --option OPT=VAL  Override config file option with given value
  -p, --position X,Y    Open window at specified coordinates
  -s, --size COLS,ROWS  Set screen size in characters
  -t, --title TITLE     Set window title (default: the invoked command)
  -u, --utmp            Create a utmp entry
  -w, --window normal|min|max|full|hide  Set initial window state
      --class CLASS     Set window class name (default: mintty)
  -H, --help            Display help and exit
  -V, --version         Print version information and exit

I don't have a `cygwin.bat` in my `cygwin64\bin` dir

cygwin.bat is located in the base cygwin install directory, in my case /c/cygwin (which is also C:\cygwin).

DavidPostill@Hal /c/cygwin
$ cd /c/cygwin

DavidPostill@Hal /c/cygwin
$ ls
bin  Cygwin.bat  Cygwin.ico  Cygwin-Terminal.ico  dev  etc  home  lib  sbin  tmp  usr  var

DavidPostill@Hal /c/cygwin
$ cat cygwin.bat
@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

bash --login -i

DavidPostill

Posted 2016-08-27T14:25:16.830

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Well, junk. I don't have a cygwin.bat in my cygwin64\bin dir like the examples in other posts show. Any idea what I should be pointing to? – ctote – 2016-08-27T14:34:56.317

1@ctote You are looking in the wrong place. Answer updated. – DavidPostill – 2016-08-27T14:43:45.670

Very awesome! For anyone else in the future looking at this, if you don't immediately see cygwin.bat in your C:\cygwin path when setting your shell, make sure the selector in Console2 isn't set to only look for exe files (by default, mine was). – ctote – 2016-08-27T14:50:05.273

1@ctote "when setting your shell" the shell, of course is bash not cygwin.bat ... – DavidPostill – 2016-08-27T14:53:09.087

yep, but Console2 has the field labeled as Shell so, just going based on their UI – ctote – 2016-08-27T14:58:06.773