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If you must, or prefer to use Windows, here's a few tips to get decent unix integration with [Cygwin].


!!Shell:

The standard Cygwin shell is a bit boring, I prefer using the native Win32 rxvt as follows.

Create a shortcut with:

<pre>
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sl 10000 -fn 14 -fg '#F8F8F8' -bg black -e /bin/bash -l
</pre>

This will give you 10000 lines of scrollback, grey on black and a decent shell setup properly.

!!UTF-8:

Good question, I don't know how to use this without using the X (non native windows) version of RXVT.


!!SSH:

Just use the openssh install, down with putty and it's confusing setting dialog and funny fonts.


!!X Server:

[Xming|http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming] is a nicer version of the X server that comes with cygwin, it's free and integrates nicely with the systray etc.

The key I found when using Cygwin SSH X-Forwarding, is that it will try to use a unix socket, if the DISPLAY variable doesn't have a hostname in it.

The fix is simple:
<start Xming>

<pre>
DISPLAY=localhost:0  ssh -X some.server.org
</pre>

If you don't, it'll fail with something like:

<pre>
~[you@someserver~~~]$ xeyes
connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: Connection refused
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
</pre>

!!Apt-get:

There are a couple of tools to do this, cyg-apt and apt-cyg.  Both have different bugs and seem to be relatively unmaintained .. shame.

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Last edited on Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:55:12 pm by JamesSpooner

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