Category: Microsoft Windows
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updating my cygwin installation left me in trouble again — was: Microsoft Windows and the X Window System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin/X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_tunnel $ startxwin I usually prefer the rootless way. My applications nowadays “usually” run on a Linux (Debian, …) system or AIX. Update 2018-04-18: After some cygwin updating startxwin prefers to shut down immediately instead of offering me a menu (“xwin-xdg-menu … — an XDG Desktop Menu Specification menu“) in the system tray.…
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how to open excel files in separate windows
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-excel/i-want-to-open-2-excel-files-in-separate-windows/f7588d9a-3c41-466f-8f01-3b6ab9661ae3
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EmacsWiki: Eshell Lnk File Support – but I would like to see the details of a Windows “.lnk” within emacs
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EshellLnkFileSupport
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cygwin: cygutils: readshortcut – displays details of Windows “.lnk” files
https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/cygutils/ – a collection of simple utilities (core collection) – “readshortcut” is one of those utilities /usr/share/doc/cygutils/PROGLIST – part of that package – quite worth having a look at Try this command line: $ readshortcut –fields –all –raw –windows *.lnk
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pylnker – a Python tool to parse Windows “.lnk” files (derived from a Perl tool)
https://github.com/HarmJ0y/pylnker https://github.com/HarmJ0y/pylnker/blob/master/pylnker.py https://code.google.com/archive/p/revealertoolkit/ – Perl script to parse LNK files: lnk-parse-1.0.pl https://github.com/lcorbasson/revealertoolkit https://github.com/lcorbasson/revealertoolkit/blob/master/tools/lnk-parse-1.0.pl $ cd ‘C:\Users\jochen.hayek\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup’ $ ~/git-servers/github.com/HarmJ0y/pylnker/pylnker.py *.lnk $ ~/git-servers/github.com/lcorbasson/revealertoolkit/tools/lnk-parse-1.0.pl *.lnk
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Microsoft Windows and the X Window System — new title: updating my cygwin installation left me in trouble again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin/X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_tunnel $ startxwin I usually prefer the rootless way. My applications nowadays “usually” run on a Linux (Debian, …) system or AIX. Update 2018-04-18: After some cygwin updating startxwin prefers to shut down immediately. I had no idea, that startxwin uses this start-up file: /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc . The last utility called there usually makes X wait…
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is there a multi-tab terminal replacement for Cygwin’s terminal?
https://superuser.com/questions/264901/is-there-a-multi-tab-terminal-replacement-for-cygwins-terminal
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Git, Windows, and how to deal with file mode problems
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12193020/file-mode-with-msysgit https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config $ git config core.filemode false
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EmacsWiki: NTEmacs With Cygwin
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NTEmacsWithCygwin This is great!!! Now I can do “Search Files…” in Emacs’s dired-mode again — just like “everywhere”. How to get it to start in the user’s home directory? Create a shortcut for runemacs.exe, move it to AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ ! Modify the properties of that shorcut accordingly!
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Oracle SQL Developer – how to run it on Windows in English w/o admin rights?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7768313/how-can-i-change-the-language-to-english-in-oracle-sql-developer https://stackoverflow.com/a/24532448/3119172 I chose the approach “set language at runtime“: sqldeveloper.exe –AddVMOption=-Duser.language=en Works like a charm. On the Win7 PC at work I have no admin rights, therefore I cannot change the config file mentioned in the thread.