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Re: xterm and cut & paste


Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:56:23 +0000, Fergus <fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net> wrote:
Include -clipboard as an option for XWin.
e.g.
run XWin -clipboard -nolisten local -multiwindow 2>nul &
and then selected text in xterm is automatically copied to the clipboard for onward pasting.
Fergus

Thanks for that. I find X very confusing and mainly just want a simple xterm to run mutt, slrn and unix like-codes.

Fancy giving MinTTY a try? It is (or at least attempts to be) compatible with xterm, but it's a native Win32 program, i.e. X is not required.


http://code.google.com/p/mintty

Andy

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