Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/09/01/22:12:24
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU> Reformatted.
davidkont wrote:
> Mark Reed-2 wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM, davidkont wrote:
>>> Hi Larry, in principle I'm interested in continue with fvwm because it
>>> works
>>> very well, this issue is the unique problem that I see...
>>>
>>> Thanks anyway...
>> You're not understanding. rxvt doesn't replace fvwm. They are
>> completely separate. fvwm is a window manager; it draws the
>> decorations around X windows and lets you close them etc. rxvt is a
>> terminal program - it's what runs inside the decorations to give you a
>> place to type commands.
>>
>> When you run Cygwin via the default .BAT, you get a Windows console
>> window as your terminal program, which is not a very good one. If
>> you're using full-screen fvwm, you probably use xterm as your terminal
>> program - but the double-clicking should work for that, so I'm not at
>> all clear on what your environment looks like.
>>
>> But either way, you can easily use rxvt instead, which has friendlier
>> behavior for selecting text.
> Hi Larry,
>
> Thanks!! You helped me much!!
You're welcome. Though I would give some credit to Mark for taking the
time to help you understand my response. :-)
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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