Category Archives: Cygwin
Console2 and Cygwin with Solarized Color Palette
If you want to use Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized color palette with Console2 and Cygwin, here’s how: Edit the console settings file at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Console2\console.xml or %APPDATA%\Console\console.xml. Replace the <colors> … </colors> section with the following: Restart Console2. Colors in vim look … Continue reading
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id3v2: Command Line MP3 Tag Editor Compiled for Cygwin
id3v2 is a powerful command line tool for editing MP3 ID3 tags. Getting it to compile on Windows under Cygwin, though, took a bit of effort. For the convenience of others, here is id3v2 0.1.12 compiled under Cygwin. It depends … Continue reading
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Cygwin: No Output from Rsync
I experienced a very strange situation where rsync simply stopped working. It wouldn’t even output anything for rsync –help or even plain rsync. which showed it to be in /usr/bin/rsync as expected. A closer look revealed something odd: $ ls … Continue reading
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