David Chanters wrote:
Hi all,
I like the feature of multi-user screen. I often do this via:
screen -x -S somesessionname
And it works great -- until, that is, I change windows in screen (via
^a a, or ^a 1 -- where "1" could be any number depending on the number
of windows in screen). As soon as I do this, the change is reflect in
that screen instance *only* and NOT the other screen instances which
are shared -- as soon as I switch back to a window which all the other
screen instances are viewing and start typing, then it all works --
and I see all the activity in all of the shared instances.
I clearly consider this a bug -- am I wrong? I am using screen 4.01,
if that matters, from Debian Sid.
Not a bug. That's not what most people would want it to do, either. The
idea behind -x isn't that everyone is seeing the same window, but that
they all have _access_ to the same windows. I tend to use -x, for
example, to view two different windows in two different X terms, from
the same session. That way I can easily swap which terminal is viewing
which window.
Of course, a fairly straightforward way to accomplish what you've
described: nested screen sessions. Have one session that everyone
connects to, and then an inner session that has all the "real" windows.
Then when you switch between windows in the inner screen, everyone in
the outer window can see it (and of course, you can use aclchg to
prevent people from opening new windows and such in the "outer" screen).
--
HTH,
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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