On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:08:29AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:32:37AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: > > > Is there a way to cut and paste between real consoles and an > > x-window session? That would be cool. > > Having recently got round to using screen I know that cutting and > pasting between a virtual console and X can be done with it. A console > session can be detached (screen -rd) and imported to X. Then you can > copy and cut from that session.
I just tried it, and it works as you describe. Extremely useful! Thanks! The original poster probably should consider abandoning his quest to mimic a console with X and just use the regular virtual terminals together with screen. Lance Simmons