This wonderful tool is familiar to the *nix advocates out there who use Konsole on KDE. But if you are a windows guy and take up cygwin you are in for a treat. Mrxvt gives you a tabbed interface that helps you save screen real estate and makes it easy to manage the ui's appearance. I like to run it in cygwin in multiwindow mode so that it sits side by side with windows apps. If you like Konsole or that sort of app then mrxvt is for you.
If you haven't tried it, get cygwin then ./configure;make install after you down load it. Very very cool.
mrxvt http://materm.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main/Download
Friday, November 20, 2009
Multitail: one that is hard to live without
In the realm of utilities this one is a jewel. Multitail lets you set up colorized log following that can be done via ssh remoting as well as on the system. The newest version is absolutely killer when you build it on your cygwin and then you can point it at any number of systems.
If you have a second monitor run multitail in a big rxvt window and you can watch all the logs you'd ever want to watch.
I like multitail because you can capture the output of any program you write as a filter and multitail itself has several great filters. Its a very very useful tool. Probably one of the very best going.
Multitail http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/
If you have a second monitor run multitail in a big rxvt window and you can watch all the logs you'd ever want to watch.
I like multitail because you can capture the output of any program you write as a filter and multitail itself has several great filters. Its a very very useful tool. Probably one of the very best going.
Multitail http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/
Cygwin
To me this is the quintesential windows tool. It gives you nearly all of the unix/linux shells and tools. The real power of cygwin is that you not only get most all of the *nix functionality you can think of but you also get a great windows scripting tool in the perl, python, php, and shells. Because this is basically a windows program that acts like a *nix machine you get the best of both worlds and can do cross overs of the two.
As a bonus you get a windows compiler, ALL of the scripting languages and editors you can think of. You get both an apache 1 and apache 2. I usually will install openssh, openldap, and all of the clients for these tools so that I can ssh over to my windows box and authenticate using LDAP. Its a very nice setup.
Cygwin comes with a very nice set of windows managers for Xwin. I like the openbox or windowmaker (wmaker) managers. If you are a glutton for punishment and have a lot of ram on your box you can download and install either KDE or Gnome for cygwin. They are really slow in that environment and rely on the GTK libs from Trolltech. Sort of nice when you want to run a utility like Valgrind (mentioned later).
I consider Cygwin an essential tool. cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/
As a bonus you get a windows compiler, ALL of the scripting languages and editors you can think of. You get both an apache 1 and apache 2. I usually will install openssh, openldap, and all of the clients for these tools so that I can ssh over to my windows box and authenticate using LDAP. Its a very nice setup.
Cygwin comes with a very nice set of windows managers for Xwin. I like the openbox or windowmaker (wmaker) managers. If you are a glutton for punishment and have a lot of ram on your box you can download and install either KDE or Gnome for cygwin. They are really slow in that environment and rely on the GTK libs from Trolltech. Sort of nice when you want to run a utility like Valgrind (mentioned later).
I consider Cygwin an essential tool. cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/
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