On Wednesday 08 June 2005 00:51, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:

I wonder whether there is someone who has some experience at installing and using Cygwin on a Windows/XP box to run graphics applications remotely on a Linux platform ... I did that recently. When I run Cygwin X-server it pops up an xterm taht I use to X-connect to the remote Red Hat machine. Luckily I can run remotely all the graphic applications I need and have them display on the Windows box sitting on my desk ... But there is a typical X feature that I cannot get. It's the common cut & paste that does not work even inside the single Cygwin xterm... Even ohn the Window machine some sort of cut/copy & paste is possible through the drop-down menus fired up by clicking the mouse rightmost button Can anyone help me with taht , please ?

Maura

I start an X window session from the cygwin terminal window then use ssh -X to log into a remote linux box and allow connections to the X session from apps on that linux box. Once logged in to the linux box, I can start window managers or whatever linux programs I wish. This is a slow, overloaded 10mbit business LAN, so I usually run ICEwm for the window manager, but I'll still use the KDE Konsole program. Occasionally, I'll start Gimp or Open Office. I've not had any problem copying and pasting text between linux programs in the X window session. Of course, you're not going to be able to select text from a linux window in the X session and then paste it into a Windows application. Note that the "terminal" window for cygwin is a Windows app, so even if you've used that terminal to log in remotely to another machine, the text in THAT window can be copied/pasted to Windows apps, but not to linux apps in the X window session. At least that's the mileage I'm getting. Thanks, Ken.