Comments on Ben's Journal: Making Windows Usable for Old Linux Farts

Thanks for the tip! Rxvt is such an improvement ov...

2006-11-29T12:57:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the tip! Rxvt is such an improvement over the basic DOS box.

There's more info on this suggestion here

If you don't want to use the Windows Command Promp...

2006-11-29T09:13:00.000-05:00

If you don't want to use the Windows Command Prompt for cygwin, install rxvt instead.

I did and replaced the line in cygwin.bat that says "bash --login -i" with:

c:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -geometry 130x45 -bg "#000000" -fg "#FFFFFF" -sr -sl 35565 -fn "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-13" -e bash --login -i

Opens up a nice window without having to setup sshd (although I do have that as well!)

You found a version of screen that works?? That's ...

2005-11-25T08:51:00.000-05:00

You found a version of screen that works?? That's excellent news.

I googled for screen fairly early on, and found one article saying that it couldn't be done on cygwin.

It's occasionally very nice to be proven wrong.

The last missing piece of the puzzle... Screen:htt...

2005-11-25T02:31:00.000-05:00

The last missing piece of the puzzle... Screen:

http://dellelce.com/code/screen/

Seems to work. I am now as happy as any Windows user can possibly be.

Christian

Yeah, Amazing Media is no more. But, so far I'm r...

2005-11-24T23:12:00.000-05:00

Yeah, Amazing Media is no more. But, so far I'm really enjoying the new job. The people are great, though I have yet to try to see them on Scheme ;-).

My quest to get my windows box to act more like a Linux box took a big step forward when I installed X windows on Windows (See: http://x.cygwin.com).

I'm amazed, I can run xterms, emacs (in X mode), imagemagick stuff, etc.

I also managed to get gnus to read my e-mail the way I want it.

Now the next challange is going to be figure out how to actually code in that environment. So far, I'm planning to use emacs -- but I may have to try eclipse.

Dave -- thanks for the reminder about your blog. I've been following, and see plenty of nifty windows ideas on it. Though, up to now I haven't really needed them...Glad you are on the case.

Otherwise how is the new job going? Hard to belie...

2005-11-23T13:43:00.000-05:00

Otherwise how is the new job going? Hard to believe you're not at Amazing Media anymore!

I was recently forced to switch to Windows, as well (from OS X). At first, I really enjoyed the ease with which I could install software (mostly servers like MySQL, JRun, Apache, PHP, etc.). But the honeymoon was soon over once I really started trying to write software. Not fun on Windows. I am going to try this trick to see if it gets more bearable. Then, when the Intel Macs come out, I'm going to buy a new Mac and give up on Windows forever.

Christian

I've always run Windows as my primary OS, but have...

2005-11-23T11:15:00.000-05:00

I've always run Windows as my primary OS, but have always been into commandline tools and scripting, so cygwin is a big part of my development environment. Check out my geek blog at: http://spugbrap.blogspot.com - I post batch files, shell scripts, tips and tricks from time to time, particularly involving integrating cygwin with other tools.

I hadn't seen this article you posted, but it has a lot of new and useful information, so thanks for sharing it!