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This is a reminder-to-self post. I wanted to set up the MATE desktop as my default X windows environment on cygwin. I dug through the docs and eventually found what I needed in a footnote at I am o. In the 'Cygwin - Select Packages' window, search for gpg and select install for all of the packages in the search results. Click 'Next' some more. When the install is complete, open Cygwin Terminal and use the cd command to navigate to the directory containing your local ISO. Note that in Cygwin the path needs to be in double quotes. Swan is a Linux-like graphical desktop for 64 bit Microsoft Windows based on Cygwin. Key Features. X Window system Window’s window-manager, taskbar and alt-tab integration; Shared clipboard; Access to Windows fonts in X; Xfce 4.12 desktop Arc GTK theme and Paper icon theme by default; Uses Window’s default browser as Xfce’s default browser.
I just found an old version installation guide, but I really do not know how to update the xfce4 to the last version..
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Download all files to a directory inside your Cygwin installation, such as C:Cygwinhome[username]xfce.
Create a /opt/xfce4 directory in Cygwin.
Make sure that your glib2 and gtk2 packages are installed on Cygwin. You may need to rerun the setup program on Cygwin to install them.
From the Cygwin shell, navigate to the directory where the XFCE files are located. Type ./installpkg.sh -v *.bz2 and press [Enter]. This will install XFCE into Cygwin.
Once XFCE is installed, edit your .bashrc file and add the following:
PATH=/opt/xfce4/bin:$PATH
export PATH
Create a /opt/xfce4 directory in Cygwin.
Make sure that your glib2 and gtk2 packages are installed on Cygwin. You may need to rerun the setup program on Cygwin to install them.
From the Cygwin shell, navigate to the directory where the XFCE files are located. Type ./installpkg.sh -v *.bz2 and press [Enter]. This will install XFCE into Cygwin.
Once XFCE is installed, edit your .bashrc file and add the following:
PATH=/opt/xfce4/bin:$PATH
export PATH
To start XFCE, type the following:
startxfce4
startxfce4
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http://www.compuspec.net/reference/os/c … tion.shtml
http://schillclan.homelinux.net/cygwin/xfce/
http://schillclan.homelinux.net/cygwin/xfce/
New version (sources and binaries)
http://mirror.facebook.net/sourceware/c … ase/Xfce4/
http://mirror.facebook.net/sourceware/c … ase/Xfce4/
My problem is that I can't make it run, What I did was to download all the binaries from the avobe mirror, installed all the binaries with installpkg.sh and after typing starxfce4 my x windows crash.. :? WTH is going on?
Thanks!
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- IBus has been added as a dependency of swan-desktop
- This will allow better support for switching keyboard input methods
- Alternate ibus engines are available, for example to support East-Asian languages
- Some users may need to check ‘IBus Preferences’ to update keyboard input settings
The Swan Setup executable has been updated to install
swan-desktop
without the extra spm -i swan-desktop
step. This does not affect existing users at all.spm
is Swan’s package manager which wraps the Cygwin setup executable. Take a look at its abilites with spm -h
.How To Install Xfce 4.14
new package:
swan-zsh
Run Swan with Z-shell as your default shell. Up to you to customize!
install it with the command
23 Mar 2017spm -i swan-zsh
xfce4-terminal
has been updated to 0.8.4, which uses GTK3Cygwinports has been discontinued, most packages having been moved to the main Cygwin repository. As a result, an important update to the package manager, and the SwanSetup program was required.
Fedora Install Xfce
Run
spm -u
to update to the latest swan-base
.