Press and release buttons on your mouse until you see this:īuttonPress event, serial 21, synthetic NO, window 0xc00001, Log in to Solaris, set your DISPLAY properly (test it with xclock or yourkit), and then run /usr/openwin/demo/xev. You must use Windows methods to copy from a Windows app into the cut buffer.įinally, you can always check on the UNIX server and see what mouse events the client/server is receiving. Just highlighting text in a Windows application will not put it on the copy buffer for X. Secondly, you are cutting the text on your DOS machine by using ^C, right? Instead of clicking the middle mouse button, middle click is emulated by simultaneous left and right clicks. If you don't see that, then a middle click from your mouse will not paste.Ĭygwin supports 3 button mouse emulation by default. Check the startup text in your cygwin box, and look for the phrase
