XFCE on Cygwin Beging forced to work on a Microsoft Platform, I decided to compile/port my favourite desktop environment, XFCE, on Windows. Install windows 98 on bochs. General info about Cygwin and XFCE can be found on their websites. Cygwin/X is a port of the X Window System to Cygwin. The Cygwin library provides a UNIX-like API on the Win32 platform. Use Cygwin’s setup program to install the xinitpackage. (See the instructions in the Section called Installing Cygwin/X in Chapter 2 for more details).
03 Aug 2017Download/Install the Cygwin Toolset. Cygwin is a collection of GNU and Open Source tools that provide a Linux-like environment for Windows: using it we can install and use llvm (which includes the GCC compilers), Clang (which includes Clang compilers), GDB (a debugger used by both compilers), and make/cmake (tools that which we use to specify how to build -compile and link- C programs). Aug 22, 2018 Use Cygwin’s setup program to install the xinitpackage. (See the instructions in. Xfce Desktop Environment: install the xfce4-sessionpackage and use the provided Start Menu shortcut. 3 Several X window managers are packaged for Cygwin. Using Cygwin/X. FVWM window manager: install the fvwmpackage.
- 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
.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 GTK3Fedora Install Xfce
Run
spm -u
to update to the latest xfce4-terminal
.Arch Linux Install Xfce
23 Mar 2017Cygwinports 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.
Ubuntu Install Xfce Command Line
Run
spm -u
to update to the latest swan-base
.