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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:21:33 +0000
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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

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