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)?

Sotos

Answer 1

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

Regards

Brow

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.

Krishna

I tried your method with terminator-0.97 to 1.90 and after install a bunch of packages it didn't work. It complains about psutil and after commenting this it complains about some static imports. The good news? Now cygwin includes terminator – Brow

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.

Commeasure

The question about how to install terminator on Cygwin, not how to install Cygwin. – Kashgar

Very sorry, lack of sleep. Edited. – Commeasure