Posts Tagged "Cygwin"

Adding Transparency to cygwin

Posted by Pourya Shahroudi on Feb 11, 2010 in Daily | 2 comments

Recently I have been using cygwin regularly, the best thing about it is that it provides many useful tools such as grep in windows. In Linux you can customize the terminal to look just the way you want it for instance you can add transparency, etc. You can apply similar look and feel changes such as transparency to cygwin using a small tool called mintty.
To install minty:

  • Run the setup.exe file available on cygwin website.
  • when you reach the package selection page search for mintty mark it to be installed.

To apply mintty to the cygwin terminal every time it starts you would need to edit the .bat file you use to run cgwin. Edit the file and replace the start line with the following:

start mintty bash --login -i

After installing mintty you can go through the options and customize it the way you prefer.
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Cygwin 1.7

Posted by Pourya Shahroudi on Dec 30, 2009 in Technology | 0 comments

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Cygwin 1.7 has just been released. There are many cool features added to the new version. The following are just some of the changes in the new release. To see the full list of these changes click here.

  • Add support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
  • PATH_MAX is now 4096. Internally, path names can be as long as the underlying OS can handle (32K).
  • Creating filenames with special DOS characters ‘”‘, ‘*’, ‘:’, ‘<', '>‘, ‘|’ is supported.
  • unlink and rmdir try very hard to remove files/directories even if they are currently accessed or locked.
  • rename rewritten to be more POSIX conformant
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