On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:10:18PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Is there ANY implementation at all, for when an app is running under > screen, for it to be able to launch a "new window" (for example, to > view an attachment in pine, to start a /query in irc, to view a file > in MC)... > > I'm not asking if this functionality exists in those programs, but > if there's a simple way of implementing it (i.e. if the calls exist, > etc).
There is: have your program run "screen foo" to start the app "foo" on a new screen window. Because $STY is set within screen, your invocation "screen foo" creates a new window instead of a new session. Unfortunately, this use case for screen is horribly broken if you want to create the new window from within a script (e.g. an Emacs key binding), because "screen foo" still checks if there is a controlling terminal -- even though in this case it doesn't need one. I get around this by instead running "xterm -e screen foo", which causes a second xterm to pop up for a second. This is a really evil and unpleasant kludge, and it makes me sad. Further reading: http://bugs.debian.org/461107 _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
