cygwin /Linux environment in Windows/

Cygwin provides a Linux environment in Windows that is best integrated with the host OS compared to other Linux implementations in Windows, such as WLS, Docker, etc. It feels just like a normal Windows program instead of a virtual machine running inside of the host OS.

Issue of slow start of shell

Disable the completion function of bash and it will be fixed:

$ cd /etc/profile.d
$ mv bash_completion.sh bash_completion.sh.disabled

One can enable completion manually this way:

$ . /etc/bash_completion

Issue of wrong file permission

Turn on “noacl” option in /etc/fstab:

none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,noacl,posix=0,user 0 0

Ref: cygwin forum

/cygwin/c to /c

Change the following line in /etc/fstab

none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,noacl,posix=0,user 0 0

to

none / cygdrive binary,noacl,posix=0,user 0 0

X

• Install xinit from setup.exe
• echo "exec sleep infinity" > ~/.startxwinrc
• launch “XWin Server” from windows

vifm

Install libncurses-devel, wget from setup.exe, wget vifm tar ball, and then

$ ./configure --without-libmagic --without-gtk --disable-extended-keys

mutt

Install mutt, msmtp, offlineimap, abook, ncurses (infocmp) from setup.exe

git

Install git from setup.exe

taskwarrior

Install cmake, gnutls from setup.exe, follow instructions in:

• http://taskwarrior.org/download/
• https://github.com/farseer90718/vim-taskwarrior
• https://freecinc.com/

w3m

Install w3m, squid from setup.exe. Add

dns_nameservers ???.???.???.??? ???.???.???.???
cache_dir ufs /var/cache/squid 1000 64 1024

to /etc/squid/squid.conf and run

$ squid -z # initialize some folders
$ squid -N -d1 # run squid not as a daemon with debug info

Set environment variable

export HTTPS_PROXY="http://localhost:3128"
export HTTP_PROXY="http://localhost:3128"
export FTP_PROXY="http://localhost:3128"

LaTeX

Install texlive-collection-publisher (elsarticle), texlive-collection-science (siunitx), texlive-collection-fontsrecommanded (txfonts), texlive-collection-latexextra (tabulary.sty), texlive-collection-genericextra (iftex, and texlive-collection-binextra (latexmk) from setup.exe

sc

Install bison, from setup.exe and

git clone https://github.com/jintonic/sc.git
cd sc
make

R

Install R package in the Math section from setup.exe