Re: Killing backticks when bouncing screen.

2009-01-22 Thread Adrian Rollett
Hi Malte, just going to chip in with my own 2 cents - your points are all valid, except for one point. Screen is actually not too good with running constantly refreshing backticks in my experience. It will block while firing up the processes, rendering it unusable for a couple seconds every n

updating the build

2009-01-22 Thread William Pursell
I've been working on updating the configury for screen, and have gotten to a state that could reasonably be merged. (Also, I don't know that I'll have much time to look at this over the next few months.) Primary benefits: Uses gnulib's getloadavg, so the configury for that function is up-to-dat

Re: Killing backticks when bouncing screen.

2009-01-22 Thread Malte Skoruppa
Hi Chris, Sorry if my original post was unclear. Some data obviously needs to be updated frequently to be useful. My intention was to avoid the overhead of having three or four scripts take off every second or so. [..] For CPU & network activity where a one-second refresh interval makes bett

Re: screen crl-a c question

2009-01-22 Thread David Huang
I have just solved the problem by using "*screen*" then keying in "vi txt" thank you Matt & Florian for your kindness :-) On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Matt Mensch wrote: > You have a typo in your command: > > from screen --help: > > -s shell Shell to execute rather than $SHELL. > -S