Comments on: Running aterm (or any other X app) rootless, without a DOS console on Cygwin

By: Rough Book » An update to running aterm (or any other X app) rootless, without a DOS console on Cygwin

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:26:44 +0000

[...] while ago, I wrote up a quick guide about running X/Windows applications (specifically, aterm) without root windows on Windows, using [...]

By: vivin

vivin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:52:19 +0000

Janvaar,

Yeah, I probably should have mentioned that, but it’s been a while since I compiled it from source. It’s one of the gotchas when building from source in cygwin. Glad you got it working!

By: janvaar

janvaar — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:54:50 +0000

Thanks got it working w/ cygwin. One hiccup I ran into on the way is when building aterm from the source. I got an error regarding an unsupported parameter "-rdynamic". I did some digging and found that the copy of gcc that comes with cygwin expects "–rdynamic" with two dashes.

By: vivin

vivin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:49:01 +0000

janvaar, You can get xv from here. I remember the last time I did this, I had a bit of trouble with xv. So I think I used xsetroot instead. That binary should come with the X windows package on Cygwin.

By: janvaar

janvaar — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:06:06 +0000

I can’t find "xv" on cygwin’s installation page. Do you know what section / package it is under?

By: Sheehan Alam

Sheehan Alam — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:14:00 +0000

thats pretty sweet dude. if ur into eye-candy check out the Beryl window manager, itll blow ur mind

By: vivin

vivin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:17:18 +0000

Haha! I don’t know, but it would be fun to try out! I know I was successfully been able to get KDE running under Cygwin a few years ago, but it was really slow. Compiz-Fusion would probably be really slow as well.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:12:44 +0000

pretty cool! thanks! i wonder if you can get compiz-fusion running under cygwin lol

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:44:15 +0000

Very helpful, thanks.