On 09/21/2010 06:44 PM, bsmile wrote: > Eric Blake-3 wrote: >> >> On 09/21/2010 03:52 PM, bsmile wrote: >>> >>> I installed Cgywin(don't know how to see its version number) under >>> windows xp >>> and so far so good. However, there is one thing very inconvenient for me >>> to >>> use Cgywin, that is, I cannot highlight a text to copy and right button >>> to >>> paste. I am wondering how I can get back this beloved feature. Any >>> advices >>> are greatly appreciated! >> >> Use mintty or rxvt instead of the windows console. >> > > I am now using mintty. Although it enables copy/paste as the way in linux, it > does not seem to support -X option of ssh. I want to run gnuplot on a remote > computer and send the graph back to the local computer for me to see, and I > use ssh -X to set up the connection. But gnuplot fails and the following > information is sent back > > gnuplot: unable to open display '' > gnuplot: X11 aborted. > > This does not seem to go with cygwin. Any idea towards this?
You need to install and run the X server. Mintty is just a terminal. Install the xorg-server package. I think the program you'll need to arrange to run is XWin32 or maybe XWin. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
