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Re: Cygwin bash
On 2008-10-07 03:58 - ?, John Emmas wrote:
> When I double click the 'Cygwin' icon on my Windows desktop, a DOS-like
> window opens which I'm led to believe is Cygwin's bash terminal. However,
> with every version of Linux that I've used, the bash terminal had menus
> allowing me to do certain things like (for example) copying & pasting text.
Click on the window's frame icon, and pick "Properties". This page
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-files.html
says how to set it up to use the commands on the "Edit" submenu.
> Also, is it possible to configure the appearance for the bash terminal? On
> my system the window is pretty small and some of the text is dark green on
> a black background. Both of these make it quite difficult to work with.
You can configure size and colors in the "Properties" dialog.
For more power, consider using (e.g.) 'screen':
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00246.html
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