Greetings, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty! > On 21/01/2021 07:34, KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Cygwin <cygwin-boun...@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of Thomas Wolff >>> Sent: 21 January 2021 02:08 >>> >>> Am 20.01.2021 um 21:31 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: >>>> trying to mark text in cygwin windows by mouse doesn't work at all. >>>> Windows 10. >>>> >>>> The same cygwin 64 installation on windows 7 works properly. >>>> >>>> It was installed to windows 10 host by simply copying whole c:\cygwin >>>> directory. >>>> >>>> Everything works except cut&paste. >>> What does `ls -l /dev/clipboard` say? >>> Copying the filesystem rather than installing loses some special file >>> properties, especially in the /dev folder. >>> Not sure whether it's possible to fix that with `mknod`. >> There might be other problems as well. Symlinks are also going to be >> affected. We couldn't find a reliable solution back in Win7 to simply copy >> Cygwin installation by preserving the symlinks in a zip archive. >> >> I would strongly advise to perform a normal installation and simply copy >> only the contents of your Cygwin home directory (C:\Cygwin\home\<username>). >> It will be quicker that trying to identify and fix all the possible issues. >> >> Panos
> NB: I don't think I have this problem, but I do seem to have an > unrelated problem where as soon as I select any text in mintty it > immediately replaced my clipboard contents which that selection. This is standard behavior for a terminal for as long as I recall. > This is very annoying, because when copying text to mintty I frequently click > and drag a small amount of text by accident. > Is this configurable somehow? Of course it is configurable. mintty - Options - Selection. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, January 21, 2021 13:07:38 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
