On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > AFAIK, there's no way of recording the screens if you use text > > > > mode > > > > locally, rather than remotely. Hence the instructions I have been > > > > posting. However, it's difficult to write those instructions for > > > > someone to follow when it appears that they have forgotten how > > > > to cut and paste text from a terminal screen into a file or an > > > > editor's buffer, or think that you can cut and paste from a PNG. > > > > That limit is very easy to see, there is no mouse in those remote > > text > > screens to use to highlight what you might want to paste into nano > > and > > keep. > > Gene, come on. You know how to select and paste out of an xterm. It > does not matter what that xterm is doing, whether it is displaying a > file of locally stored bible notes, running the Debian installer or > running minicom into the serial port of a nuclear power station's > control panel. It displays text. You select the text with a mouse > and paste that into a another document. > > Why is getting you to paste textual data from one terminal window > into another (or a text editor or email or whatever) so > monumentally difficult? > > Regards, > Andy Very simple Andy, the vt1-2-3-4, what have you text login does NOT use the mouse, so there is no way to highlight what you want to copy/paste. Why is that so hard to understand as the reason I can't post what I see?
In a gfx login I use konsole simply because its the most full feature, bug free terminal software linux offers. The only other term proggy I see in the menu's here it termit, which up to now I'v never used. So let me look at it before I hit the reset botton after plugging in the optical drive with the d-i in it. Aha! it uses the mouse to highlight text on screen, and pastes it into nano AS TEXT. Marvelous. but will it run on an alt+ctrl+f2 screen. no. So what is this "xterm" you speak of that is supposed to be able to do all this magic stuff. Let me go look at synaptic on the remote machine I've been using to see if its installable. yes, but it tab-less, no menus at all. but I just discovered whatever terminal is std in that bullseye install, xfce I think, CAN use the mouse to copy text so I'll use that for the next remote screen install. The drive is partitioned, but partition mount points have not been defined. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
