Re: Re: Where is everyone?

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 04:54:50PM -0600, Bruce Bales wrote:
> On Thursday 28 January 2010 9:41:16 am Arnold Cavazos Jr. wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:43:39PM -0600, Bruce Bales wrote:
> > > > > By the way, I got an HTC droid eris about Christmas time and it is a
> > > > > fantastic machine.  Knows were I am thanks to GPS and has access to
> > > > > much of the web, has camera and camcorder, makes the weather in
> > > > > Andover available and much more.  However, sometimes I miss having a
> > > > > console. Does anyone know of an Android app to provide a console?
> > > > >
> > > > > bruce
> > > >
> > > > ConnectBot.
> > > > Terminal Emulator.
> > > >
> > > > Both in Android Market.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Arnold.
> > > Not sure yet how to use connectBot.
> > > The terminal emulator and better emulator give me a command line, but no
> > > keyboard.  The HTC Eris has only a virtual keyboard.
> > > bruce
> >
> > I have a soft keyboard as well.  With ConnectBot a long press on the
> > menu key toggles the keyboard.  Here is a good reference for ConnectBot
> > and a soft keyboard:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/wiki/UsageWithSoftKeyboard
> 
> Wow! great!  Haven't been able to connect yet, though.  Get "Host has 
> disconnected."  
> 
> And have to keep removing the keyboard because the words are always down under 
> the keyboard.  typing blind.
> Still, a great app.

To get a console session going on a non-rooted version of Android, you 
have to touch the dropdown that says 'ssh' and change it to 'local'. 

-- 
Arnold Cavazos, Jr.  abcjr at abcjr . net