I'm a long-time screen user, but there's one thing that's been bothering me for years that I've never found a good solution for.
My typical usage is I SSH from my Windows box to my Linux box using PuTTY, get a shell, then launch screen. When you first create a screen session, it inherits all its environment variables from the parent shell. One of these variables is DISPLAY, which of course is used by X. I frequently create many shell windows. Each of these windows has their own shell that has its own copy of DISPLAY. Now, the problem is when I close PuTTY and then later relaunch it and reattach to the running screen session. When I open a new SSH connection to my Linux box, that shell often has a different DISPLAY variable than previously. Therefore, in order for X forwarding to work from within screen, every single shell window (that needs X) must have its DISPLAY variable updated appropriately. This is really a pain, because I find myself closing and re-opening my PuTTY multiple times per day. It would be nice if there was a way to update all those shell windows with a single command so that DISPLAY will be set properly on each. Anyone have an idea for how to do this? I've been thinking about it for a while and can't think of any good solution. Thanks, Adam _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
