Re: hardstatus and putty scrolling

2020-08-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Grant wrote: > I’m referring to scrolling the window by moving the elevator in > PuTTY up/down to inspect the previous output in the shell history. As far as I know this is not possible because the terminal (putty in this case) scrollback buffer is unknown to the curses terminal applicatio

Re: Delay when closing a window after starting a background process

2018-07-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Dun Peal wrote: > This problem has been plaguing me for years now, and still now with > the recent 4.6.2 release. Ah! > Steps to reproduce: > 1. Start a new screen session. > 2. Create a new window. > 3. Hit Ctrl-D. Window closes instantly. > 4. Start another windows. > 5. Run the following bash

Re: Screen In An Active Directory Environment

2018-02-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > What does 'getent passwd $USER' say in this case? What does 'whoami' > > say in this case? > > whoami returns the correct name That is good at least. > nsswitch is looking first at files, then the vas4 au

Re: Screen In An Active Directory Environment

2018-01-21 Thread Bob Proulx
e it like this: getent passwd yourloginhere Here is an example from my standalone system for me. getent passwd rwp rwp:x:1000:1000:Bob Proulx:/home/bob:/bin/bash In the above it was a local entry but in an NIS/yp environment, or LDAP, or MySQL, or whatever then it would have returned that i

Re: Trying to build screen

2017-01-29 Thread Bob Proulx
prashant Nidgunde wrote: > I downloaded screen code from below (as per website): > git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/screen.git > However, there is no configure script at this location. > configure is missing in this screen/src folder. Please read the ./src/INSTALL file for detailed instructio

Re: binding command character to f12

2013-03-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Please keep the mailing list in the recipient list so that all may participate in the discussion. Thanks. sonne wrote: > Is it possible to unset it completely without changing source code? I > surely could move it somewhere far like meta-control-shift-x, but it > would be desirable to just get ri

Re: binding command character to f12

2013-03-23 Thread Bob Proulx
sonne wrote: > Great, how could I now unset C-a so as to free the keystroke? Set the escape character to something different. Personally as an Emacs user I find C-a a terribly unfortunate collision and always change it to C-z which seems innocuous for either it or vi. I have this in my ~/.screen