On Monday 08 January 2007 07:59, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 22:39 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I can see what you mean, and that process works ok, but what I'm looking > > for is a way to view whats already on machine B's Konsole from machine A. > > > > The example was. I'm working on machine B. With the Konsole I run apt-get > > update, then apt-get dist-upgrade. The upgrade runs to completion, and > > I'm left with a lot of text on Konsole. I have a query regarding the > > update, but my email client is on the other machine. If I close Konsole I > > lose the text, unless I save it as a .txt file. What I'm looking to do is > > keep machine B's Konsole open, and be able to access it from machine A, > > and in this way can paste the text from machine B's Konsole, which is now > > viewable on machine A, onto machine A's Kmail composer. > > There's also VNC, which allows you to see another machine's X on the one > you're working on. Depending on how you start it up you can either have > a clone of its current screen, or get another fresh login. Obviously, > the first option is what you'd want, and I seem to recall that you could > do that by firing up the VNC server process on the machine that you want > share its display, in the current login. > > i.e. While you're using B, start a VNC server on it. Then use a VNC > client on A. I've only used VNC once before, anyway after finding out how it works again I tried it. This works fine, and I can highlight and paste Konsole content into Kmails composer on machine A. The only problem, and IIRC was the reason I havn't used VNC is because when it's running, both machines are using 100% CPU. Even to keep the connection I've had to run the VNC client on machine A at 8 colours. Machine A: Gateway 500, P111 Katmai, Rage128 graphics. Machine B: I-Friend, 1.3GHz Celeron, Trident Cyberbladei1 graphics. Thanks for the suggestion Tim. Nigel.
