-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >> That's unlikely to be true. The applications on the other end of the SSH >> tunnel requested the click events, first (based on the TERM env var >> having something like "xterm" in it: they check for that value >> explicitly, but usually don't recognize "screen" as a mouse-capable term >> name). Try running your ssh session under script, and check for the >> \E1001h, etc, sequences, in the resulting typescript. > > This is wrong. Setting the $TERM to "xterm" within screen does not > cause nano -m to work for me.
It does for me, over your provided ssh access. I'll provide the full details when I'm done exploring. > As far as I know, once a terminal session is negotiated, settings don't > change. Screen is particularly obnoxious about intercepting and not > passing down the pipe things it doesn't understand. > > You're telling me that in the following chain... > > [1 local window mananger] -- [2 xterm] -- [3 ssh] -- [4 sshd] -- [5 > shell] -- [6 application] > > That somehow #6 can tell #2 or even #1 not to send their events? I > think the "local" terminal is far dumber than that. The question is whether it can tell them _to_ send their events. And yes, that's accurate: a program that sends the "send mouse events" sequence to screen will have them passed along to other terms - provided that screen itself detects that it is being run in a mouse-capable display (determined by checking for the presence of either "xterm" or "rxvt" in the TERM value). (This is _exactly_ why terminfo needs to be extended to allow advertising this feature.) That list ought to be expanded to include "screen" itself. I thought I remembered patching that once, but maybe it was a distro-specific patch that didn't make it upstream, or something. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer, and GNU Wget Project Maintainer. http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIiWZC7M8hyUobTrERAnGiAJ9zY+YiHDxWfc0gWAoEyYUOoOHJaACfShN+ +BE7X3/FIP0zx8gmrWtYgC8= =B7V2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
