Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:20:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com To: John Vincent cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Subject: Re: query regarding use of Xwin -multiwindow In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, John Vincent wrote: > Hi, > > I've just discovered the -multiwindow option of the cygwin x-server and I > think it's great, as I can now run an xterm on a linux box and display it on > my windows xp machine. One problem, though, I don't seem able to > cut-and-paste btween the xterm window and a ms-windows application. It's as > if the x-server has it's own cut-and-paste buffer which the xterm windows > share, but which is distinct from the cut-and-paste buffers used by the > ms-windows applications. > > Can anyone throw any light on this? > > I've done a recent complete binary install of cygwin, uname -a gives > "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 JPV 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown > Cygwin" > > I expect I just need to configure something, but I'm at a loss as to where > to start with this. Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > /John Vincent. The best help you can get would be on the cygwin-xfree list, which deals with XFree86/Cygwin issues. For your convenience, I'm redirecting this query there and setting the Reply-To to the correct list. Please remove from any future mailings on this subject. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/