Clear Screen

Hi, I use bash on Xterm. While working you press Ctrl-L, so that the screen gets cleared and you see the currently line only. But you may want to see the last outputs/prints. However, if you do a Ctrl-L/clear command, these prints go away. In that case, what can you use so that you clear the

Issue with Left/Right Arrow Keys

Hi, I just installed the latest cygwin and I realize that the up/down arrow keys on the cygwin shell, the one that comes from cygwin\cygwin.bat, are not working. Even If I open an Xterm, the keys are still not working. What could be wrong? Thanks, Ajay. -- Problem reports:

Xterm Title

Hi, I want my Xterm to display a constant title say mercury. So I use: Xterm -T mercury. Further, I have placed the following line in my .Xresources: xterm*allowTitleOps: 0. From my .vnc/xstartup, I also do: xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources. Even then my Xterm title changes to logn...@hostname:pwd. I

Re: Xserver and VNC

Hi Jim, What *has* seemed to improve things is to install the experimental X server (1.9) as well as latest XWin.exe from:   ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20100923-git-2172af4d1ea713f1.exe.bz2 and the latest cygwin1.dll from:   http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ I am using the following

Xserver and VNC

Hi, I use a Cygwin Xserver on Windows for Xterms. Now I have to access a remote desktop using VNC. I find that if I open both, they conflict. For example, if you do a copy/paste operation, both of them hang. Is there any information on this? I need to use both of them at the same time. Regards,

Issues with Copy Paste

Hi, The copy and paste from Xterm (using Cygwin) to my local machine is playing a hide and seek. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it does not. Can somebody please give me checklist on what to enable in default so that copy paste works between xterms and any local windows application. Many

Issues with Copy and Paste on Xterm

Hi, I have gone thru enough docs available on the Internet and I would like to confirm the right methodology to copy paste from an Xterm to a Windows application, say a notepad. As of now I have to select the text by selecting the first word, then span multiple screens and then doing a right

Good Xterm Fonts for C Programming

Hi, I know I am asking a subjective question here, but still I think I may get a response that fits very well into my style :-) I am using cygwin + xterm to login to a linux box. I am currently working on C codes. I have experimented a lot with Xfontsel and found

Migrating to Cygwin-X

Hello, I used to work with Hummingbird Exceed earlier and then shifted to putty due to lack of an X-server. However, now I would like to move back to an X environment and therefore experimenting with Cygwin-X. My setup is that I have a Windows machine and I remotely connect to a linux box via