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RE: Basic question 2 - Copy from Windows and paste to cygwin or X
- From: "Reid Thompson" <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:53:22 -0400
- Subject: RE: Basic question 2 - Copy from Windows and paste to cygwin or X
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Reid Thompson wrote:
> 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
>> --
>> 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
these files are in /usr//X11R6/bin
reid
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