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Date: 2007-10-19 | Tags: emacs, linux, ratpoison

Date: 2007-09-04 | Modified: 2008-09-07 | Tags: cygwin, ratpoison, softwaretools, urxvt | 4 Comments

Here are my configuration files for my current Cygwin, X, ratpoison, screen, urxvt, bash setup.

General Cygwin and bash

I changed filename completion to be case-insensitive since we're on Windows. To do this, see the last line in ~/.bashrc and the last line in ~/.inputrc below.
I changed the "/cygdrive" prefix to just "/". To do this, type this command once: "mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /"
I added aliases to use "grep" and "ls" with color. And I added aliases to start various windows applications. See ~/.bashrc.

urxvt

urxvt (rxvt-unicode) is a better alternative to rxvt and xterm. See the ~.Xdefaults file ...

Date: 2007-07-16 | Tags: cygwin, ratpoison, softwaretools | 3 Comments

Running the minimalist ratpoison window manager with Cygwin/X works. You will need to install the following Cygwin packages:

gcc-core
make
readline
xorg-x11-base
xorg-x11-devel

Here is how to install:

$ tar xvfz ratpoison-1.4.2.tar.gz
$ cd ratpoison-1.4.2
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Put the following lines in your startxwin.bat file (and remove the other old %RUN% commands):
```
%RUN% XWin -rootless -clipboard -silent-dup-error
%RUN% /usr/local/bin/ratpoison
```
Run the startxwin.bat file

UPDATE 11/08/2007:

When I installed this the first time, I had no problems. The second time I installed, after getting a ...

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