Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnu screen - copy'n'paste
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:02:16
Message-Id: 544E96A7.2030907@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gnu screen - copy'n'paste by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On 27/10/2014 19:03, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I am using screen to log into my beaglebone embedded computer, which
5 > runs Gentoo (of course!) like this:
6 >
7 > ssh -t root@192.168.178.27 screen -R -d
8 >
9 > . This makes it possible to detach the terminal and shutdown the PC,
10 > while the beagle still runs processes...
11 >
12 > BUT:
13 > Unfortunately I cannot copy and paste things from my PC to a started
14 > session like the way described above.
15 >
16 > What is the problem here? ssh? screen? Or...simply my (mis-)
17 > understanding of the whole thing ?
18
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20 How are you doing the copy-paste actions?
21
22 Read up on Ctrl-a [ (copy) and Ctrl-a ] (paste), it's quite well
23 described in screen's man page
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28 Alan McKinnon
29 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com