Installing terminator on cygwin

Question

After going through a lot of sites about best terminal for system admins I was trying to install on Cygwin. Unfortunately, I did not find any good site with instruction about how to do it.

Is anyone done this before? Please help me with steps and packages that I need to install.

Also is there any terminals I can try (like Cygwin)?

Answer 1

I don't know since what version, but now you can install terminator just from the Cygwin installer. And runs great

Regards

Answer 2

If you don't want to use cygwinports, you can actually install all of terminator's dependencies from the cygwin installer, except for terminator itself.

In the cygwin installer select and install: python-dbus python-gobject python-gtk2.0 python-vte (under GNOME tab for some reason) GConf2

Then, pull down the latest terminator tarball from https://launchpad.net/terminator/+download and extract it somewhere. In a administrator terminal just run python setup.py install and as long as you have a running X server just running terminator will work perfectly.

Answer 3

The sources about how to install terminator are a bit obscures. What I did, and may help you, was this: (although I'm still having segmentation faults errors)

1. Update your Cygwin to the latest

2. Open a Cygwin terminal and run: (if you have the x86 version use that. The idea of this step is to use Cygwin Ports)

   cygstart -- /your/cygwin/path/setup-x86_64.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg

3. In the section Choose A Download Site:

   • Add "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cygwin-ports"
   • Add " ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports"
   • Select another mirror close to you

   Check that you have a total of three URLs selected

4. It may show you warning about not loading the .ini configuration but ignore them (Note: I looked for different port URLs but the official ones threw me errors and I could not pass this step, that's why I used alternatives URLs)

5. First, you need to install the packages for the X Window:

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup.html

Basically they are:

• xorg-server (required, the Cygwin/X X Server)
• xinit (required, scripts for starting the X server: xinit, startx, startwin (and a shortcut on the Start Menu to run it), startxdmcp.bat )
• xorg-docs (optional, man pages)

Also search and select the terminator package

It takes quite a while before it finishes.

1. Go to Start->All Programs->Cygwin-X->X Win Server (windows tool bar)

2. A xterm window should open. Type:

   terminator

You should know have terminator with Cygwin.

Note: After I run terminator I get this error:

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/terminatorlib/terminator.py:87: Warning: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised
  self.gnome_program = gnome.init(APP_NAME, APP_VERSION)
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/terminatorlib/terminator.py:87: Warning: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised
  self.gnome_program = gnome.init(APP_NAME, APP_VERSION)
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/terminatorlib/terminator.py:87: Warning: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised
  self.gnome_program = gnome.init(APP_NAME, APP_VERSION)
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/terminatorlib/terminator.py:87: Warning: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::default-icon after class was initialised
  self.gnome_program = gnome.init(APP_NAME, APP_VERSION)
Warning: python-keybinder is not installed. This means the hide_window shortcut will be unavailable
Unable to bind hide_window key, another instance/window has it.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I've looking to fix this issue but sadly I couldn't find anything. If you use Cygwin x86 your outcome can be different.

Hope this can help you.