Copy Paste to Windows

B. Marchand marchand@purdue.edu
Wed Jan 14 15:15:00 GMT 2004


Yes, your problem must be the version of the xserver. If you had the 
right version all
you'd have to do would be:

To copy from cygwin to Windows
(1) use the mouse to select (highlight) the text you want to copy
(2) the highlighted text is now on the clipboard
(3) if you want to paste that selection into word or notepad then use 
CTRL-V on the windows side


To copy from Windows to cygwin
(1) use the mouse to select (highlight) the text you want to copy
(2) press CTRL-C to copy seletion into clipboard
(3) go into your xterm and press the middle mouse button to paste. If 
you don't have a
3 button mouse use the -emulate3buttons option in the startxwin.bat 
file. Then, to paste, all you'd have to do is press the two mouse 
buttons simultaneously.

To copy from cygwin to cygwin
(1) use the mouse to select (highlight) the text you want to copy
(2) that puts the selection into the clipboard
(3) place the cursor where you want to paste the text
(4) press the middle mouse button (or the two mouse buttons 
simultaneously if using the -emulate3buttons option)

That's all.

--B.

> Several mirrors are between 6 months and 3 months out of date.
>
> Please run "cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv". If the version reported is not 
> "4.3.0-40", then you installed from an out of date mirror and you need 
> to use a different mirror.
>
> Harold



>
> dvos@nm.ru wrote: Hello .
> I've read about uzing clipboard for copy paste and edited my 
> startxwin.bat to
>
> start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard
>
> Yet I cannot copy . I use the last version of XFree , I ran the cygwin 
> Instalaiton today ,from the web.
>
> Maybe I don't know how do I actually copy/paste . Do I use CTRL+C or 
> CTRL+V when I copy to Windows and middle mouse when I copy to cygwin ?
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