Installing WinTin: A windows installer is available for download to install WinTin, which exists of the PuTTY terminal and a TinTin binary. Wintin doesn't have shell capabilities, but otherwise it's an excellent TinTin port that works on Windows 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10. The Cygwin mailing lists are the places for all questions. Address space is a very limiting factor for Cygwin. These days, a full 32 bit Cygwin distro is not feasible anymore, and will in all likelihood fail in random places due to an issue with the fork(2) system call.

News

X server 1.20 andX.Org X11 Release 7.7are included in Cygwin.Details are available in the announcementshere andhere.

Note that since X server 1.17, by default the server does not listen for TCP/IPconnections, only accepting local connections on a unix domain socket.See this FAQ for more details.

Users upgrading from monolithic X (Release 6.9 and earlier, available via setup before November 2008)should also see theannouncement about modular X.2018-Jun-29

Overview

Cygwin/X is a port of the X Window System to the Cygwin API layer for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. Cygwin provides a UNIX-like API, thereby minimizing the amount of porting required.

Install Cygwin X Server

Cygwin/X consists of an X server, X libraries, and nearly all of the standard X clients, such as xterm, xhost, xdpyinfo, xclock, xeyes, etc. Many more X programs are also packaged for Cygwin. See also the features and screenshots pages.

Cygwin/X is licensed under a MIT/X11 style license. Cygwin is licensed under a modified GNU General Public License that specifically allows libcygwin.a to be linked to programs that are licensed under an Open Source Definition compliant license without such linking requiring that those Open Source programs be licensed under the GNU General Public License (see the Cygwin licensing page for more information). Source code and binaries for both projects are freely available.

Downloading and Installing

Cygwin/X is installed via Cygwin's Installer, either setup-x86_64.exe (for the 64-bit version), or setup-x86.exe (for the 32-bit version of Cygwin), and the installation process is documented in the Cygwin/X User's Guide.

Whether or not you already have Cygwin installed, you can add Cygwin/X to your installation by downloading and running setup, and selecting the 'xinit' package from the 'X11' category.

Cygwin Mac Os X Download For Mac

Using Cygwin/X is documented in a step-by-step manner, with lots of pictures and examples, in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Please notice, however, that Cygwin/X contains many general-purpose programs, libraries, and functions that are part of all X distributions. It is therefore beyond the scope of the Cygwin/X User's Guide to document all of these X Window System components. To find documentation, for example, for setxkbmap one should consult the generic X documentation such as the setxkbmap(1) manual page. You could always, of course, do a Google search for setxkbmap, which finds the manual page mentioned above.

Help, contact ...

For all Cygwin/X related questions and observations, please check the resources available at this site, such as the FAQ, the User's Guide and the mailing list archives. If you've exhausted these resources then please read the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines before sending an email to the cygwin mailing list.

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