Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> [14-10-28 02:24]: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 5:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> [14-10-27 22:56]: > >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:03 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I am using screen to log into my beaglebone embedded computer, which > >> > runs Gentoo (of course!) like this: > >> > > >> > ssh -t [email protected] screen -R -d > >> > > >> > . This makes it possible to detach the terminal and shutdown the PC, > >> > while the beagle still runs processes... > >> > > >> > BUT: > >> > Unfortunately I cannot copy and paste things from my PC to a started > >> > session like the way described above. > >> > > >> > What is the problem here? ssh? screen? Or...simply my (mis-) > >> > understanding of the whole thing ? > >> > >> What do you mean by "copy and paste"? C-k/C-y in the console? > >> C-S-c/C-S-v in an X terminal like gnome-terminal? Select by the mouse > >> and then middle click? > >> > >> Regards. > >> -- > >> Canek Peláez Valdés > >> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias > >> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México > >> > > > > I mean the UNIX classic, not the Windows stuff: > > Mouse Left: Select/Copy > > Mouse Middle: paste > > That's implemented by your terminal program, AFAIU. It should not > matter what machine do you connect to, the other side should not even > be aware about the selected text, and when you past it with > middle-click, it should receive it like normal keyboard strokes. > > What does "echo $TERM" says in the beaglebone? > > Regards. > -- > Canek Peláez Valdés > Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México >
TERM is set to xterm-256color, which is the TERM setting, which I use on my PC Gentoo-Linux also. Copying text from terminal to terminal on my PC only does not create any problems... Mysterious... Best regards, mcc

