cut and paste doesn't work

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 20.01.2021 um 21:31 schrieb Wojciech Puchar:
> trying to mark text in cygwin windows by mouse doesn't work at all.
> Windows 10.
>
> The same cygwin 64 installation on windows 7 works properly.
>
> It was installed to windows 10 host by simply copying whole c:\cygwin 
> directory.
>
> Everything works except cut&paste.
What does `ls -l /dev/clipboard` say?
Copying the filesystem rather than installing loses some special file 
properties, especially in the /dev folder.
Not sure whether it's possible to fix that with `mknod`.

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