Comments on: Console, Cygwin, and Windows 7 http://www.dorffweb.com/wordpress/2009/10/console-cygwin-and-windows-7/ What's going on in my life... Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:22:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: phayes http://www.dorffweb.com/wordpress/2009/10/console-cygwin-and-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-10391 phayes Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:52:50 +0000 http://www.dorffweb.com/wordpress/?p=590#comment-10391 Try using mintty, a module included with cygwin. I tried & abandoned rxvt when I found mintty. Mintty is similarly customizable (it even has transparency for inactive windows), has the same xterm style copying & pasting but has the advantage of a smaller footprint as it does not need X. It's one weakness is that it's multiwindow instead of tabbed. As an aside, I just moved to WinSevenUltimate64 to break the 3.5Gb memory barrier & found that cygwin/Windows integration has become much easier. Cygwin has always used /cygwin/home/username as the user homedir because the windows account equivalent has spaces. The use of spaces for "My Documents", "My Pictures" etc was also a problem. Win7 now uses c:\users\username as the default directory & the "My " prefix has been dropped. I was just able to finally unify my cygwin & Windows homedir by setting HOME & removing the login directory from my entry in the cywin password file. Once I moved .??* & the few directories i kept in my homedir from c:\cygwin\home\phayes to c:\users\phayes everything just worked! Try using mintty, a module included with cygwin. I tried & abandoned rxvt when I found mintty. Mintty is similarly customizable (it even has transparency for inactive windows), has the same xterm style copying & pasting but has the advantage of a smaller footprint as it does not need X. It's one weakness is that it's multiwindow instead of tabbed.

As an aside, I just moved to WinSevenUltimate64 to break the 3.5Gb memory barrier & found that cygwin/Windows integration has become much easier. Cygwin has always used /cygwin/home/username as the user homedir because the windows account equivalent has spaces. The use of spaces for "My Documents", "My Pictures" etc was also a problem.

Win7 now uses c:\users\username as the default directory & the "My " prefix has been dropped. I was just able to finally unify my cygwin & Windows homedir by setting HOME & removing the login directory from my entry in the cywin password file. Once I moved .??* & the few directories i kept in my homedir from c:\cygwin\home\phayes to c:\users\phayes everything just worked!

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