About Swan

Swan is a Linux-like graphical desktop for 64 bit Microsoft Windows based on Cygwin

Key Features

• X Window system
  • Window’s window-manager, taskbar and alt-tab integration
  • Shared clipboard
  • Access to Windows fonts in X
• Xfce 4.12 desktop
  • Arc GTK theme and Paper icon theme by default
  • Uses Window’s default browser as Xfce’s default browser
  • pulseaudio support available with swan-desktop-audio package
• Thunar file-manager
  • “Open here” for terminal, cmd.exe and Windows explorer
  • “Open with Windows” to use Windows file-type associations in Xfce
  • Symlinks created in Cygwin are navigable from Windows
• Xfce terminal
  • Bash shell with sensible defaults and colors
  • Git shell prompt
  • UTF-8 support
• Git
  • Preinstalled with default configuration
  • Http authentication credentials are stored in Windows Credential manager
    • gnome-keyring support available with git-credential-gnome-keyring package
  • Seahorse GUI to manage and unlock SSH keys
  • command-line tab-completion
• Engrampa archive manager handles zip, tar, gz, bz2, xz, and more
• Common utilities
  • Busybox provides lightweight versions of many standard utilities
  • openssh, wget, nano, git, gcc, python, perl (and more) come pre-installed
• spm utility wraps cygwin setup.exe for quick package installation and removal
• Install packages from the official Cygwin mirrors

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