RE: Basic question 2 - Copy from Windows and paste to cygwin or X

["Reid Thompson" <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>]

Herbert Eppel wrote:
> On 28.09.2005 13:43 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
>> I am already doing that (-clipboard), among others:
>> 
>> run XWin -screen 0 1750 1350 -multiplemonitors -emulate3buttons
>> -scrollbars -clipboard -silent-dup-error
> 
> Thanks, but would you mind elaborating a little?
> 
> As I explained in a previous message, it's been a few years
> since I used
> Unix when I worked at University and my Unix knowledge has never been
> brilliant and has become even rustier since then...
> 
> I start my X environment with the following command:
> 
> startx -- -screen 0 1200 900
> 
> where would -clipoard fit in, and what does it actually do?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Herbert Eppel
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> www.HETranslation.co.uk

use startxwin.bat from cmd.exe or starxwin.sh if in a bash prompt to
start X-windows -- you can look at both of the files to see what they do
-- they are startup scripts for X.

reid

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