-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > So from Micah's findings, it would almost appear that based on the > application, there's a number of things that one needs to do to make > this work. (xterm value, fake display, manually send the escape > sequence, etc).
No; to my knowledge, the only program I've ever seen require DISPLAY to be set is alpine, which is kind of retarded. Manually sending the escape sequence will _not_ work, as I mentioned previously. It will get screen to send the sequences, to be sure, but it will not put the application into an accepting state (nano -m would not accept them properly, despite being in "mouse enabled" mode, unless the term was "xterm"). > This is definitely something that fits well into some kind of > documentation grid as to what-setup-requires-what... Probably should go on the wiki. http://aperiodic.net/screen/ > I'm not sure if there's anything in screen that can fix it (although I > think the window-title hack is a neat answer). Won't work: that'll be equivalent to what I did with "sending the escape sequence first"; nano still doesn't interpret them. Even if it did work, it'd be a bad idea, except for your own personal use. Even if you never suspend nano to work in the shell, other people certainly may. > I am also not sure if > this should be brought to the nano/alpine/whatnot developers -- there > are at LEAST a couple situations where you want a mouse without a > display, i.e. console-access, where screen is ideal (but then, you have > multiple virtual consoles). AFAICT, nano doesn't explicitly look for xterm; it may well be an ncurses issue, rather than nano. > Let me think on this a bit more -- there's GOT to be a clean way to > handle this -- Micah, do you think it's relevant to open bugs with the > appropriate projects? It can't hurt; I had some success with that in Vim. But adding "screen" to the list of approved terminals is not a good general solution; it really needs to be addressed in ncurses/terminfo. > Or better still, can we come up with a way to define a "test case" for > mouse under screenable events? > > (I had a coworker tell me I should run gpm in my ssh session, to fix > this...I wonder how right he might have been...other than that I'm under > freeBSD). Does gpm work that way? I wouldn't have thought so, but I don't really know that much about gpm. I thought it's intended to work on the actual console terms, though, with the local mouse. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer, and GNU Wget Project Maintainer. http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIihR07M8hyUobTrERApJTAJ4/QI0rfcHTRvVv1Hl/Qo/eI5bo5gCeNCt4 +ji1+8OfmFUov9sJhJoARLI= =Hy2p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
