Re: Detached screens disappear - help debugging?

2009-12-18 Thread Pandurangan R S
May be this another possible reason then. http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jnweiger/screen-faq.html Q: If I leave screen too long detached it mysteriously disappears, although I feel that this is not a flaw in the program but rather my system being 'cleaned' of stray jobs. A: Che

Re: hstatus?

2009-12-18 Thread Thor Andreassen
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:59:24PM -0500, Aaron Davies wrote: > Screen 4.00.02, running on RHEL AS 4.5 (and possibly further > customized by my employer, I'm not sure) sets the PuTTY window title > to > > [screen %n: %t] > > (Those are screen escapes, e.g. a literal title might be "[screen 0: > -

RE: Detached screens disappear - help debugging?

2009-12-18 Thread Leinartas, Michael
My screen sockets are actually in /var/run/screen/S-/ I can't find anything that would be clearing it (checked crons, logrotate, etc). When these screens disappear, both the SCREEN process and the socket are gone. It seems almost like screen shuts itself down for some reason. If it were shutti

Re: terminal capability problem when login therough screen

2009-12-18 Thread Erik Osheim
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:38:58PM -0500, Pia Mikeal wrote: > I usually just put something like the following in my .profile on remote > servers > > export TERM=vt100 Alternately you can do this: (within screen on local box) u...@local$ terminfo > SOMEFILE u...@local$ scp SOMEFILE u.

Re: terminal capability problem when login therough screen

2009-12-18 Thread Pia Mikeal
I usually just put something like the following in my .profile on remote servers export TERM=vt100 because your problem is that the remote box does not know about the terminal type that your local screen sets it to. The reason I do this on a case by case basis rather than putting it in the l

terminal capability problem when login therough screen

2009-12-18 Thread J. Bakshi
Hello list, A strange issue which I encounter during ssh through screen. If I ssh to my remote servers ( one debian and one suse) I have no problem at all to use vim. But if I *ssh through screen* then the vim on remote debian box reports ` ` ` E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'screen.

Re: terminal capability problem when login therough screen

2009-12-18 Thread J. Bakshi
J. Bakshi wrote: > Hello list, > > A strange issue which I encounter during ssh through screen. If I ssh to > my remote servers ( one debian and one suse) I have no problem at all to > use vim. But if I *ssh through screen* then the vim on remote debian > box reports > > ` ` ` > E558: Terminal ent

terminal capability problem when login therough screen

2009-12-18 Thread jb12
Hello list, A strange issue which I encounter during ssh through screen. If I ssh to my remote servers ( one debian and one suse) I have no problem at all to use vim. But if I *ssh through screen* then the vim on remote debian box reports ` ` ` E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'screen

Re: String escape for total number of windows?

2009-12-18 Thread Thor Andreassen
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:25:11PM -0800, John Magolske wrote: > Is there a string escape sequence that will display the total number > of windows (just a single number, not all window numbers and names)? There does not seem to be. > For example, if I were in the 7th window and 23 windows were o

Re: search in copy/scrollback mode when using vertical split

2009-12-18 Thread Sadrul Habib Chowdhury
* Jacob Alexandersson had this to say on [18 Dec 2009, 14:28:42 +0100]: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury > wrote: > > > * Jacob Alexandersson had this to say on [15 Dec 2009, 10:02:18 +0100]: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I'm using screen from the ubuntu repositories which

Re: search in copy/scrollback mode when using vertical split

2009-12-18 Thread Jacob Alexandersson
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: > * Jacob Alexandersson had this to say on [15 Dec 2009, 10:02:18 +0100]: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm using screen from the ubuntu repositories which has the > vertical-screen > > patch. I just noticed that when I've got the screen in v

Re: Cannot set $TERM in screen -- it always defaults to xterm

2009-12-18 Thread Thor Andreassen
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:15:22AM +, Leo Alekseyev wrote: > On Ubuntu 9.10, GNU screen ignores any attempt to set the TERM variable -- > either by setting term="xterm-256color" in .screenrc, or using :term command > in > screen itself, or using a -T command line switch. Whatever I do, $TERM i