On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 19:42 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > Thanks all the same for the "screen" suggestion. it would be nice if there was > a way to open KDE's Konsole in screen mode, rather than having to open > Konsole, and type screen everytime you use it, just in case there might be > some output you want to have accessable on the other machine. One more possible solution that might be the best if (as I thought you mentioned earlier) the machines in question are next to each other. Install 'synergy' on both boxes, configuring one to be the server, the other a client. Then you can hide one of the keyboards (or not, it still works) and do all your work from the server's keyboard and mouse. When you hit the edge of the server's screen with the mouse pointer, it moves over to the client and lets you control it with the same mouse and keyboard more or less like a dual-headed box. The relevance to your problem is that it also copies the X clipboard contents across machines, so you can simply slide the mouse over, copy what you want, slide it back and paste it in. Note that this scenario works with more than one client and also is cross platform so you can cut/paste between windows and linux. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx