Isn't cygwin the graphic environment? If mintty invokes cygwin, I would expect it to have full feature of support such an environment. But I will try installing xwin32 to see how it works out,
Jeremy Bopp-3 wrote: > > 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 > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/how-to-enable-the-very-convenient-copy-paste-editing-method-in-Cgywin--tp29774167p29775124.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple