Re: Missing system load and date/time string escapes

2018-06-25 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Amadeusz, On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 08:29:53PM +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > > I noticed that the master branch has a few string escapes removed, compared > > to earlier releases, such as system load (%l) and various date and time > > ones (%d, %m, %c, %s etc.). Is there a way to have the fu

Re: Trouble getting 256 mode working in latest Ubuntu

2018-05-24 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 04:53:32PM -0500, Dun Peal wrote: > I recently upgraded to latest stable Ubuntu (18.04 LTS). > Unfortunately, after building screen from source, 256 mode no longer > seems to work. For example, if I launch vim, it reverts to the 8 color > color scheme. > > This was a p

Re: screen-4.6.0 regression: within su: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/14' - please check

2017-06-30 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 02:50:48PM +0800, Clark Wang wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Axel Beckert wrote: > > I know that behaviour of screen for ages and even saw people > > recommending tmux because it doesn't seem to have this issue. > > > > >

Re: screen-4.6.0 regression: within su: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/14' - please check

2017-06-29 Thread Axel Beckert
andatory. > > Any way to return the old behaviour? I'd rather be interested in how you got that working all these years. :-) Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...

Re: Why does "\024" mean `C-t'? (in bindkey example in man page)

2016-08-13 Thread Axel Beckert
Ctrl-V Ctrl-V and Ctrl-C also needs to be prepended by Ctrl-V to escape from it's normal interrupt meaning.) HTH. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...@deuxc

Re: gnu screen defrag

2016-06-17 Thread Axel Beckert
;sort' command sorting windows by title * 'bumpleft', 'bumpright' - manually move windows on window list * 'collapse' removing numbering 'gaps' between windows, by renumbering * 'windows' command now accepts arguments for use with querying

Re: Session dies after logout

2016-06-02 Thread Axel Beckert
is does not completely suffice. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html | a...@noone.org (Mail+Jabber

Re: Four questions about examples of GNU Screen use

2016-03-06 Thread Axel Beckert
rt me and since all my own infrastructure is UTF-8 based, I don't mind enforcing it in case I encounter a legacy installation or such. So I don't bother to remove it nor to think about if I still need it. :-) Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign

Re: Four questions about examples of GNU Screen use

2016-03-05 Thread Axel Beckert
yes, there's also mosh. But the above has also the advance that I can add any port forwardings or other SSH options and they're used upon every reinstantiation of the connection again.) HTH. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign

Re: Reg cross compilation issue

2015-10-27 Thread Axel Beckert
;t know on which distribution you are, but https://wiki.debian.org/CrossCompiling also has some distribution independent information. Maybe this already helps. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News

Re: need "windowlist" info externally, not interactively

2015-10-23 Thread Axel Beckert
vailable is too old for that, so hacks > still needed. Yeah, it's not so old. > I was pleased to find that my home machine has -Q though. :-) Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News

Re: need "windowlist" info externally, not interactively

2015-10-19 Thread Axel Beckert
indownumber $ screen -X screen $windownumber mc HTH. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://www.nonhtmlmail.or

Re: GNU Screen v.4.3.0

2015-06-20 Thread Axel Beckert
ne to me. 4.2.1 outputted "4.02.01". There were leading zero in the ^Av output since I can remember. :-) P.S.: Screen 4.3.0 built and works fine on Debian unstable. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say

Re: Start multiple screen-sessions per script

2015-03-03 Thread Axel Beckert
work for you? According to the man page the window number is optional, but maybe this doesn't count in all cases? (If so the man page should be made more precise.) Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No t

Re: Start multiple screen-sessions per script

2015-03-02 Thread Axel Beckert
creenrc" and deletes the temporary .screenrc afterwards again. The script where I implemented this is at https://github.com/xtaran/ratpoison-desktop/blob/master/bin/terms#L34 Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say

Re: Checking the signature of a tarball

2015-01-12 Thread Axel Beckert
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Re: Screen status line renders differently in 4.2.1

2014-08-03 Thread Axel Beckert
and https://bugs.debian.org/731388. It has been fixed in Git a few months ago and the fix will be part of the next release, probably 4.2.2. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News

Re: GNU Screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Axel Beckert
rong. It is not a very active project, but a very mature one. Nevertheless there's still happening something in the code every few months, last commit 9 days ago (which is younger than the mail I'm replying, too, yes, but it shows clearly that there _not_ nothing happening):

Re: Caption >> %M << UTF-8 issue with the month march in german

2014-03-24 Thread Axel Beckert
ut day of month doesn't make much sense. :-) Regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://arc.pasp.de/ | a...@noone.org (Mail+

Re: Beep notifications in multi-attach mode

2013-09-24 Thread Axel Beckert
12-03-20. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://www.asciiribbon.org/ | a...@noone.org (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long

Re: Changing baudrate of a screen session without restarting screen.

2013-09-17 Thread Axel Beckert
hat should set the baud rate to 19200 when typing Ctrl-A Shift-B (which is not bound by default as far as I can see). Hope, this helps. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...@d

Re: Screen terminal freezes

2013-08-29 Thread Axel Beckert
re's a bug in the used SSH implementation, that should not make a difference. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://www.asciiri

Re: Caption to show `pwd` instead of shell?

2013-08-08 Thread Axel Beckert
y * Programs that are currently running in that window It does not show the current working directory, but I don't think that should be too difficult. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HT

Re: $TERM size (was: Re: New release?)

2013-08-06 Thread Axel Beckert
allow longer user names actually does that already IIRC. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://www.asciiribbon.org/ | a...@no

$TERM size (was: Re: New release?)

2013-08-06 Thread Axel Beckert
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Re: emacs compatibility - changing a default binding?

2013-04-24 Thread Axel Beckert
you acutally use inside the Screen session. Having to type C-a a to go to the beginning of the line in emacs or the shell isn't that bad. :-) You very likely won't find a better keybinding which suits everyone, mostly due to _no_ keybinding is perfect and C-a is too well-known. HTH.

Re: screen script

2012-11-16 Thread Axel Beckert
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Re: Coping with screen session and ssh-agent session

2012-10-17 Thread Axel Beckert
n these two articles and it works fine for me. HTH. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://www.asciiribbon.org/ | a...@noon

Re: First release of screen

2012-10-08 Thread Axel Beckert
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Re: multiple child windows for screen

2012-09-05 Thread Axel Beckert
ions will run. But you can also run screens inside screen. Split the outer screen using Ctrl-A S and Ctrl-A | until you have the wanted layout, then start a shell in each window and start a new screen session in each, and you should get the same layout, just in one X terminal. Kind

Re: New release

2012-07-31 Thread Axel Beckert
rds to locking screen which also happen without the patch. More details later though as I'm currently busy with other things. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...@deuxchevaux

Re: programmatically get the status message?

2012-05-28 Thread Axel Beckert
atus message? You can use "screen -Q windows" -- unfortunately -Q does not (yet) work together with "windowlist" to get the full title of all windows. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML i

Re: problem when split window

2012-04-17 Thread Axel Beckert
S (and C-a | just split the current window, but don't start anything in the new window. You can also use C-a C-a to show another already existing shell in that window. Hope, this helps. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / S

Re: X clipboard

2012-02-19 Thread Axel Beckert
n also help. HTH Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News| a...@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://www.asciiribbon.org/ | a...@noone.org (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long

Re: Two column layout

2012-01-13 Thread Axel Beckert
aw such a feature mentioned in GNU Screen. But GNU Emacs can do such things. I just checked, it even works with a shell (but not with fullscreen ncurses/slang applications like mc or ncdu): M-x shell (start a shell) C-x 3 (split into to columns) M-x follow-mode (turn the above mentioned feature

Re: Two column layout

2012-01-13 Thread Axel Beckert
tial lines from, say, a text editor > and | is a screen split. Especially on a wide-but-not-tall monitor. Try Ctrl-A | (i.e. the pipe symbol). Should do it with more recent versions of screen. Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert

Re: How to give each screen session a description?

2011-11-28 Thread Axel Beckert
doing? Yeah,, it's possible although I can't remember how by mind, but the wrapper "screenie" uses this feature: http://pubwww.fhzh.ch/~mgloor/screenie.html Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / S

Re: Beginner Question: Is GNU Screen still in active development? Will there be future releases?

2011-10-14 Thread Axel Beckert
that problem. And I guess, if you install screen with setuid, it doesn't have that issue either. But I never tried it. On the other hand you will never run into this, if you just "su" into root as root always has write access to the TTY. HTH Kind regards, A