* Trent W. Buck on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 12:35:52 +1000 > 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.
I might be wrong, but it sounds like you could achieve this with: "screen -X screen foo". c -- Was heißt hier Dogma, ich bin Underdogma! [ What the hell do you mean dogma, I am underdogma. ] _F R E E_ _V I D E O S_ -->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
