Cygwin Links

My quick notes for quick install of X/cygwin on windoze... tried on XP:

• install cygwin (use a mirror, say mirros.kernel.org in my area) using nano.

If you don't like the default manager,

locate startxwin.sh (/usr/X11R6/bin) and make 4 copies of it: (copy them to, say /bin for ease... )

In startxwinmy.sh, add more xterms...

in startxwinfvwm2my.sh, locate the line calling "Xwin -multiwindow"... remove -multiwindow, (perhaps replace by -rootless, according to your taste) add a line saying twm before the xterms.. add a few xterms..

(USE NANO FOR NOW!)

in startxwinfvwm2my.sh, comment out -multiwindow (replace by "-rootless", if you like), add a line fvwm2 before the xterms.. add a few xterms..

similar for startxwingnomemy.sh

do similar for startxwinwmakermy.sh

Then, of course, use startxwinXXXmy.sh to launch X.

fvwm2 will complain about missing fvwm2rc, locate that file and copy to ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc...

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Emacs will be quite broken in regular cygwin console (on windoze XP). C-c -> C-g. It will work fine in the X though, even if you use -nw

add to path some of these:

PATH="${PATH}":/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/home/deego/pub/pub/usr/local/scripts:/home/deego/scripts:/opt/bin

For C-h

(global-set-key "\C-h" 'backward-char-delete-untabify)

Path:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/

ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html#where-precompiled

http://gnufans.net/~deego/pub/debian/cygwin/

Resources:

FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html -- cygwin X

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.html -- cygwin X user's guide.

http://cygwin.com/faq.html

http://people.freenet.de/dirk.schultheis/cygwin-xfree_toc.html

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.pdf -- cygwin X user's guide

Add this to mirrors: http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/install/

cp startx to startxmy and remove the --multiwindows in there.

run startxmy and then run gnome-session

hm, this doesn't work for me at this time for some reason.

Emacs in tty: someone says Environment variables needed for proper emacs: CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty ?

else C-c --> C-g

[FIXME: invalid characters]

or see: http://www.udel.edu/topics/connect/sw/exceed/docs/cygwin.html

Also see: andlinux