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6a1814ca
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6a1814ca
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Nov 24, 2005
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Russ Fish
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Document usage of the new rxvt shell icons on the Windows XP desktop.
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@@ -453,21 +453,35 @@ Here are some fine points and hints for RDP logins to remote Windows desktops:
<li>
There are several
<b>
Desktop icons
</b>
(i.e. "shortcuts") installed by
default in the XP images: Computer Management, Bash and TCSH shells,
and
<i>
NtEmacs
</i>
.
</li>
and
<i>
NtEmacs
</i>
. You will notice two flavors of Bash and TCSH icons
on the desktop, labeled
<code>
rxvt
</code>
and
<code>
Cygwin
</code>
.
<li>
The Bash and TCSH icons run their respective shells in a
</b>
Windows
Terminal
</b>
, just as the Windows cmd.exe does.
<p>
<ul>
<li>
The
<b><code>
rxvt
</code>
shells
</b>
run in windows with
<b>
X
</b>
-like cut-and-paste mouse clicks:
<ul>
<li>
<b>
Left-click
</b>
starts a selection,
</li>
<li>
<b>
Right-click
</b>
extends it, and
</li>
<li>
<b>
middle-click
</b>
pastes.
</li>
</ul>
These are the ones to use if you're connecting from an X
workstation.
</li>
<br>
<li>
The
<b><code>
Cygwin
</code>
shells
</b>
run in a
</b>
Windows Terminal
</b>
window, just as the Windows cmd.exe does. These are the ones to use
if you're connecting from a Windows workstation.
<p>
<b>
Quick-edit mode
</b>
is on by default, so you can cut-and-paste
freely between your local workstation desktop and your remote RDP
desktops.
<p>
Remember that the cut-and-paste mouse clicks are different from in
<b>
X
</b>
, where left-click starts a selection, right-click extends it,
and middle-click pastes. (These are the clicks to use when you are
SSH'ed in to a Windows node from an xterm window.) Yes, it can be
confusing.
<p>
In a Windows Terminal window on your RDP remote desktop, the
quick-edit cut-and-paste mouse clicks are:
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<li>
<b>
Right-click the mouse with nothing selected
</b>
to
<i>
paste
</i>
the contents of the clipboard.
</li>
</ul>
<br>
</ul>
</ul>
</li>
<br>
<li>
On the
<b>
first login by a user
</b>
, Windows creates the user's
<i>
Windows
profile directory
</i>
under
<code>
C:\Documents and Settings
</code>
, and creates
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