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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions looking for linux like tab terminal for windows Post 302313598 by SilversleevesX on Wednesday 6th of May 2009 05:53:00 AM
Old 05-06-2009
Gnome on Cygwin -- a little behind the times on docs & support etc

Quote:
Originally Posted by fishsponge
i have never tried this, but you might be able to install Cygwin with X11 support, and then run gnome-terminal if you install the relevant Cygwin packages.
A caveat to anyone new to Linux going after a/the Gnome WM for Cygwin.

Yes, there is still a Gnome category in the Cygwin setup.exe. Yes, the items in that category do install from the mirrors using the latest, or next-to-latest, version of said setup utility. But unfortunately the Cygwin/X Gnome pages are more than a little out of date. Most of them are still calling the Cygwin X stuff by its old name "X-Free86" while in terms of 'what came from where,' is technically correct, a good many things have changed with Cygwin X from those days to now, enough to make instructions on how to start Gnome within Cygwin practically useless. For instance: the mention of an /opt/gnome folder -- in my two most recent installs of Cygwin, an "opt" folder was not installed. Yet by following the instructions on the main Gnome for Cygwin pages, one would end up (as I did) adding a nonexistent folder to their execution path, either on the Cygwin side, the M$ side or both.

Just a little word of warning from someone who, after KDE, likes Gnome most of all in the Linux universe.

BZT
 

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File::Spec::Cygwin(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   File::Spec::Cygwin(3pm)

NAME
File::Spec::Cygwin - methods for Cygwin file specs SYNOPSIS
require File::Spec::Cygwin; # Done internally by File::Spec if needed DESCRIPTION
See File::Spec and File::Spec::Unix. This package overrides the implementation of these methods, not the semantics. This module is still in beta. Cygwin-knowledgeable folks are invited to offer patches and suggestions. canonpath Any "" (backslashes) are converted to "/" (forward slashes), and then File::Spec::Unix canonpath() is called on the result. file_name_is_absolute True is returned if the file name begins with "drive_letter:", and if not, File::Spec::Unix file_name_is_absolute() is called. tmpdir (override) Returns a string representation of the first existing directory from the following list: $ENV{TMPDIR} /tmp $ENV{'TMP'} $ENV{'TEMP'} C:/temp Since Perl 5.8.0, if running under taint mode, and if the environment variables are tainted, they are not used. case_tolerant Override Unix. Cygwin case-tolerance depends on managed mount settings and as with MsWin32 on GetVolumeInformation() $ouFsFlags == FS_CASE_SENSITIVE, indicating the case significance when comparing file specifications. Default: 1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2004,2007 by the Perl 5 Porters. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2010-09-20 File::Spec::Cygwin(3pm)
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