On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 11:47:46 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > > AFAIK, there's no way of recording the screens if you use text > > > > > mode > > > > > locally, rather than remotely. Hence the instructions I have been > > > > > posting. However, it's difficult to write those instructions for > > > > > someone to follow when it appears that they have forgotten how > > > > > to cut and paste text from a terminal screen into a file or an > > > > > editor's buffer, or think that you can cut and paste from a PNG. > > > > > > That limit is very easy to see, there is no mouse in those remote > > > text > > > screens to use to highlight what you might want to paste into nano > > > and > > > keep. > > > > Gene, come on. You know how to select and paste out of an xterm. It > > does not matter what that xterm is doing, whether it is displaying a > > file of locally stored bible notes, running the Debian installer or > > running minicom into the serial port of a nuclear power station's > > control panel. It displays text. You select the text with a mouse > > and paste that into a another document. > > > > Why is getting you to paste textual data from one terminal window > > into another (or a text editor or email or whatever) so > > monumentally difficult? > > > Very simple Andy, the vt1-2-3-4, what have you text login does NOT use > the mouse, so there is no way to highlight what you want to copy/paste. > Why is that so hard to understand as the reason I can't post what I see? > > In a gfx login I use konsole simply because its the most full feature, > bug free terminal software linux offers. The only other term proggy I see > in the menu's here it termit, which up to now I'v never used. So let me > look at it before I hit the reset botton after plugging in the optical > drive with the d-i in it. Aha! it uses the mouse to highlight text on > screen, and pastes it into nano AS TEXT. Marvelous. but will it run on an > alt+ctrl+f2 screen. > > no.
Reread my instructions. You weren't asked to cut and paste on a VC (console), but in an xterm. > So what is this "xterm" you speak of that is supposed to be able to do > all this magic stuff. Don't be so disingenuous—you know very well. You've used it. Not surprisingly, you've remonstrated on it here. Cheers, David.