From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A2C1389A7 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5B99E0A7D; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f47.google.com (mail-wg0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBD3AE09A7 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id a1so2696160wgh.6 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:02:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SLJqAxfzwSd+XlmBOoNu2CTthUnjlskwRypiY6uQpRw=; b=UitgCdX7VKYilXP3goKQu/dViADKYhzCJKpI766ojQx//tzjONv8WsWNRphB9VmfjS r0ZYfhvSrJjD9DNhGWqozFQddMrtjtBtbn3Q7W3FreeXW/ZY18+Ugw+REhVA1Gbe8HH/ GlARt7zzQlujQ+YOuhV8R2KV0IgDiqnLFrIDZ0MqpvbWuzvICOcd8hu2aHaQl0VRJk1O WPTdzleEtsj/MrA/zYN8SuTaUiG4t9eooba1/HSHMGk46yRof9EYZ8Ayfd9UMCO8Hydg 2YrbwsO+wKckWphhuC3f3dJ3luB1+m7u6IhD3hwOdf8TxpoN13FPcDbqv3NvtAIJr6q/ eUQQ== X-Received: by 10.180.12.136 with SMTP id y8mr8747522wib.73.1414436528283; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-230-245.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.230.245]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id j20sm16566029wjn.0.2014.10.27.12.02.07 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <544E96A7.2030907@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:01:59 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnu screen - copy'n'paste References: <20141027170300.GA3856@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20141027170300.GA3856@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 30bd739a-01c0-41bc-8e36-a39749c29a12 X-Archives-Hash: b4e214f89514e356a1b450acf6fe42ba On 27/10/2014 19:03, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I am using screen to log into my beaglebone embedded computer, which > runs Gentoo (of course!) like this: > > ssh -t root@192.168.178.27 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 ? How are you doing the copy-paste actions? Read up on Ctrl-a [ (copy) and Ctrl-a ] (paste), it's quite well described in screen's man page -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com