On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:13, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 18:38, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Nigel Henry wrote: > > > I can ssh into my other machine ok, and can edit > > > files, etc, which is no problem. > > > > > > What I would like to do is to have access to what is > > > currently displayed on the CLI (Konsole) on machine > > > B. As an example. I run apt-get update, then apt-get > > > dist-upgrade on machine B, which runs to completion. > > > The history is still on the CLI. I now need to post > > > the history from the CLI on machine B to a mailing > > > list. The email client (Kmail) is on machine A. > > > > > > Is there a way to display the history that's on the > > > CLI on machine B on machine A, so that I can simply > > > highlight the text, then paste it to Kmails composer > > > on machine A? > > > > > > Both machines are next to one another, but at the > > > moment I have to save the CLI history on machine B as > > > a text file, ssh into B from A, and use nano to > > > display the text file, before I can highlight, and > > > paste the text into Kmails composer. > > > > If you do all your work from a machine running X (i.e. > > ssh to the others in terminal windows) you should be > > able to cut/paste directly from any window to any > > other. Aside from being very handy for commands you > > want to repeat across machines, you should be able to > > grab the output of anything to paste into mail as long > > as it fits in the window or the terminal scroll-back > > size. > > > > -- > > Les Mikesell > > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > Apologies for my ignorance but I'm not having much > success here. > > X is running on both machines, which are both next to one > another. At the moment I have text on KDE's Konsole on > machine B. I need to be able to see this text on machine > A. I can ssh into machine B from machine A with no > problem. I can then type "konsole", but this just opens > an empty konsole. What I'm looking for is to display > what's on machine B's Konsole on machine A. > > Sorry that I'm not terribly clued up. > > Nigel. ssh -Y to B from A then fire up your KDE konsole and do your work then you will have the information on B on the screen on A and then paste it into your e-mail on A.
