From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (mailsrv.cs.umass.edu [128.119.240.136]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8DE333858006 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2021 22:31:47 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 8DE333858006 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cs.umass.edu Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=moss@cs.umass.edu Received: from [192.168.0.4] (c-24-62-203-86.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.62.203.86]) by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 27C8D401A57D; Tue, 2 Feb 2021 17:31:47 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: [QUAR] alternative to terminator To: =?UTF-8?B?RnLDqWTDqXJpYw==?= , cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 17:31:47 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 22:31:49 -0000 So ... I tried downloading terminator. 1) It did not run out of the box - the python code wants the python package psutil, which is not available on Cygwin. Sigh. It could in principle be ported, but other people have commented that it is significant work and so it has not been ported over the last 10 years. 2) I then tried rebuilding it from source. Building worked (once I installed intltool, which the building needed), but I got the same issue as (1) when trying to run the result. 3) I tried commenting out the import of psutil, but that got me to needing a bunch of Gnome python bindings, not all of which I was able to find for Cygwin. So whoever was building this presumably did deeper surgery, which might need to be repeated to move to python3. But here is how I had success! I installed cygwin terminator. I opened /usr/bin/terminator and on the first line changed python to python2. terminator then started for me. Of course I have both python2 and python3 installed. Regards - Eliot Moss