X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <495F4C7A.4020706@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:31:06 +0000 From: Andy Koppe User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: xterm and cut & paste References: <495DBA97.6080702@bonhard.uklinux.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:56:23 +0000, Fergus wrote: >> Include -clipboard as an option for XWin. >> e.g. >> run XWin -clipboard -nolisten local -multiwindow 2>nul & >> and then selected text in xterm is automatically copied to the clipboard >> for onward pasting. >> Fergus > > Thanks for that. I find X very confusing and mainly just want a simple > xterm to run mutt, slrn and unix like-codes. Fancy giving MinTTY a try? It is (or at least attempts to be) compatible with xterm, but it's a native Win32 program, i.e. X is not required. http://code.google.com/p/mintty Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/