I love using Cygwin on my Windows machine. I have it setup to run the FVWM X-Windows interface. My terminal of choice for this system is mrxvt . Mrxvt does not come as a cygwin install but you can build it for the cygwin.

I found the installation instructions for doing this here .

Basically you need to make sure that you have the following packages installed on your system (There could be more, but I don’t know what they are since I install everything cygwin has to offer):

1) Cygwin base install
2) gcc
3) make
4) autoconf
5) automake
6) libiconv
7) the entire X11 category of packages
8) all of the cygwin rxvt packages
9) font-misc-misc

Next you will need to compile the code with the following commands:

$ ./configure --enable-everything --disable-debug
$ make
$ make install

Now you are ready to use it. I startup fvwm using the xinit command. You must make usre that you include the -silent-dup-error flag or mrxvt will have weird behavior. Here is how my xinit initialization script looks.

xinit -- -emulate3buttons -clipboard -silent-dup-error

Since I did not want to do that command every time I started fvwm I just created a alias to that command in the .bashrc file.

Well I had decided to try and to a post a week on the Blog for my New Years Resolution. Well that sure did not last long. I seemed to only be able to do it for one month before I failed on getting a new post out there. I expect that is not too bad of a thing, since I have been busy at work, and have not found enough free time to get back to this. Oh well..... I am going to reset the clock, and see how many weeks in a row I can go now, without missing a post.