Cygwin Resources
Here I provide some cygwin binary packages for blackbox.
Blackbox 0.70.1 binary tarball
Download blackbox-0.70.1.tar.bz2 (2.2Mb)
Extract
tar -xvjf blackbox-0.70.1.tar.bz2 -C /
Edit ~/.xinitrc and add blackbox to your the file. In my case this is the only line in my file.
blackbox
Edit /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
defaultserverargs="-multiwindow -clipboard"
to
defaultserverargs="-clipboard"
Fire it up (via startx) and you should see this
Warning: I had to disable Unicode fonts in blackbox to get it working with cygwin. I have no idea why, but if blackbox tries to use unicode fonts all you get is boxes instead of the correct font renderings.
Blackbox 0.65.0 binary tarball
Blackbox is very lightweight and quick, forget Gnome or KDE. Blackbox and fluxbox are very similar and I normally use one or the other. At the moment fluxbox does not compile under Cygwin.
You can download Blackbox 0.65.0 compiled for cygwin blackbox-0.65.0.tar.bz2 which is 1.062Mb.
XModMap German
Here is the .xmodmap for a German keyboard. Xmodmap-de.html
BitchX
BitchX also provides binary version for Cygwin. BitchX