On 2008-10-07 03:58 - ?, John Emmas wrote: > When I double click the 'Cygwin' icon on my Windows desktop, a DOS-like > window opens which I'm led to believe is Cygwin's bash terminal. However, > with every version of Linux that I've used, the bash terminal had menus > allowing me to do certain things like (for example) copying & pasting text.
Click on the window's frame icon, and pick "Properties". This page http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-files.html says how to set it up to use the commands on the "Edit" submenu. > Also, is it possible to configure the appearance for the bash terminal? On > my system the window is pretty small and some of the text is dark green on > a black background. Both of these make it quite difficult to work with. You can configure size and colors in the "Properties" dialog. For more power, consider using (e.g.) 'screen': http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00246.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
