Posts Tagged ‘ssh’

How to copy/paste to/from your terminal with ChromeOS

13. February 2011

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For those of you who have used PuTTY on Windows, you probably have become accustom to highlighting text to copy and right clicking to paste it. Well, that is kind of how it works with ChromeOS on the Cr-48. As it turns out, highlighting text will copy it into a separate buffer (different than your normal ctrl+c buffer). To access this buffer and paste the text, you have to do a three finger hard click on your trackpad. It is that easy!

As a side note, this works as a copy/paste for any situation, not just to/from your terminal.

Happy chroming!

SSHMenu

13. March 2009

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Until today, my installation of Ubuntu was not working well, and due to time constraints I was forced to fall back on my Windows Vista installation. I should have known that the two hours it would have taken me to fix Ubuntu would have been a lot less than the time and patients required to put up with Vista’s crap. To say the least, I am back on Ubuntu now. During my short sabbatical from Ubuntu, I opted to use PuTTY as my ssh client. One of the features I grew fond of was PuTTYs ability to save sessions, so the first thing I did when I booted up Ubuntu was: (more…)