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Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:25:41 -0500
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On 09/21/2010 06:44 PM, bsmile wrote:
> Eric Blake-3 wrote:
>>
>> On 09/21/2010 03:52 PM, bsmile wrote:
>>>
>>> I installed Cgywin(don't know how to see its version number) under
>>> windows xp
>>> and so far so good. However, there is one thing very inconvenient for me
>>> to
>>> use Cgywin, that is, I cannot highlight a text to copy and right button
>>> to
>>> paste. I am wondering how I can get back this beloved feature. Any
>>> advices
>>> are greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Use mintty or rxvt instead of the windows console.
>>
>
> I am now using mintty. Although it enables copy/paste as the way in
linux, it
> does not seem to support -X option of ssh. I want to run gnuplot on a
remote
> computer and send the graph back to the local computer for me to see,
and I
> use ssh -X to set up the connection. But gnuplot fails and the following
> information is sent back
>
> gnuplot: unable to open display ''
> gnuplot: X11 aborted.
>
> This does not seem to go with cygwin. Any idea towards this?

You need to install and run the X server.  Mintty is just a terminal.
Install the xorg-server package.  I think the program you'll need to
arrange to run is XWin32 or maybe XWin.

-Jeremy

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