Re: New release

2012-07-31 Thread Brian Kroth
Axel Beckert 2012-07-31 16:45: Hi, On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 08:43:25AM -0500, Brian Kroth wrote: Debian's experimental branch at least has a git based package now, It's in Debian Unstable for about 1.5 months now and in Debian Testing for about three weeks. :-) from a quick glan

Re: New release

2012-07-31 Thread Brian Kroth
Carsten Mattner 2012-07-21 14:52: I've been using screen for many years and it has been almost 4 years since the last official release. Are there any plans for a new release? Or should I just use screen from the master branch to get a recent version? I completely agree with the sentiment. I

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

2011-10-13 Thread Brian Kroth
Andrew Schulman 2011-10-13 09:46: Regarding the subject, just wanted to know this because I am trying to decide whether to go with Screen or Tmux. So far in my experience, Screen seems more mature (but I might not be qualified enough to say this :-) ) . I admit a release has been slow in com

Re: where to get the vertical split patch?

2011-05-25 Thread Brian Kroth
Dustin Kirkland 2011-05-24 22:40: Hi Sadrul, I'm hitting a few of these (v-split related bugs), as well as a handful of other problems stemming from cherry picking individual patches from git (and neglecting later ones). Is there any chance of rolling a candidate screen release any time soon?

Re: multiple screen categories

2010-07-02 Thread Brian Kroth
Wolfgang Hennerbichler 2010-06-29 10:16: > Hi List, > > I do manage a huge bunch of devices, and I would like to have > something like a category or group within screen. currenty I run 3 > screen sessions with multiple terminal sessions within each screen - > one connects to all our routers and

Re: Page-up feature in screen

2010-05-14 Thread Brian Kroth
VIGNESH PRABHU 2010-05-14 09:53: >On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Jostein Berntsen ><[1]jber...@broadpark.no> wrote: > > On 12.05.10,20:18, VIGNESH PRABHU wrote: > > Hi friends, > > > > Since I came to know of Screen utility I have been regularly using it > in m

Re: inteface screen

2010-05-13 Thread Brian Kroth
Jostein Berntsen 2010-05-13 18:49: > On 12.05.10,08:35, Bruno Lessa wrote: > > Recently i learned how to work with screen program > > > > but in my first utilization, it questioned me about their interface (dark, > > black and etc..) > > > > I selected dark. And now, I want to change this featu

Re: turn of control characters in screen

2010-04-21 Thread Brian Kroth
Misha Koshelev 2010-04-19 14:29: > Dear Sirs or Madams: > > I am trying to use GNU screen as a backend for resumable NX sessions. > > I was wondering if there exists a solution to turn off _all_ control > characters in a screen session? > > Thank you > Misha BTW, perhaps defutf8 or defc1 can

Re: turn of control characters in screen

2010-04-21 Thread Brian Kroth
Eric S. Johansson 2010-04-19 16:52: > A better solution may be dtach. I like it better than screen because I > use Emacs and I don't care about multiple screens a single terminal > session. The reason I don't use it is because I can't invoke it with the > logic "use the first unattached sessio

Re: How to keep windows split after detaching/reattaching

2010-03-16 Thread Brian Kroth
I think this may be what you're looking for: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2007-02/msg0.html Yuki (aka Rubén Gómez) 2010-03-16 09:02: > I have been looking how to keep my splited windows in screen after > detaching but all the answers is that I can't do it, but I can fake it

Re: How to test if screen has a specified window?

2010-02-19 Thread Brian Kroth
Wu, Yue 2010-02-19 23:35: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:44:15 +0800, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury > wrote: > >> * Yue Wu had this to say on [11 Feb 2010, 09:45:12 +0800]: >>> Hi list, >>> >>> I want do some script with screen, but I don't know how to know if >>> screen has >>> a window titled with "foo"

Re: How to set screenname automatically to hostname.

2010-01-25 Thread Brian Kroth
I'm sure I've made this comment before, but this thing is worth looking at if you're using bash, else zsh natively has the ability to do it. Basically it allows you to run a command just before every command you run whereas the PROMPT_COMMAND gets run just before it prints a new prompt (ie: after y

Re: Mapping ctrl+arrow keys

2010-01-04 Thread Brian Kroth
Alexander Sandler 2009-12-30 16:05: >I checked if anyone had this problem before. I found one guy who >complained about similar problem, but for him ctrl+left/right worked in >terminal, but didn't work in emacs. Eventually he solved it by changing >TERM variable in emacs. Unfortuna

Re: use the "windows" key as the escape key

2009-12-29 Thread Brian Kroth
Erik Falor 2009-12-29 11:47: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:03:50AM -0600, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > > I have been asked this several times and I haven't been able to find > > the answer myself. > > > > Is it possible to use the "Windows" key (Super_L) (between Ctrl and > > Alt) as the screen escape

Re: Ping Packagers

2009-12-24 Thread Brian Kroth
Dustin Kirkland 2009-12-22 10:42: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury > wrote: > > I don't think there will be much of a problem using dynamic malloc in the > > current code. However, it can be problematic for when we merge in the > > scripting support. For example, a scrip

Re: Ping Packagers

2009-12-21 Thread Brian Kroth
Dustin Kirkland 2009-12-11 18:01: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Brian Kroth wrote: > > So long as we're considering some changes, can I petition to have the > > default MAXWIN increased from 40 to 99 (or higher)? > > > > We have a screenrc for our ssh b

Re: Ping Packagers

2009-12-11 Thread Brian Kroth
To Dustin/Sadrul: So long as we're considering some changes, can I petition to have the default MAXWIN increased from 40 to 99 (or higher)? We have a screenrc for our ssh bastion host that sets up >40 ssh sessions by default and we always end up recompiling screen to support this. Thanks, Brian

Re: session save to disk?

2009-09-01 Thread Brian Kroth
Gerald Young 2009-09-01 16:16: > On Tuesday 01 September 2009 14:22:52 David Collins wrote: > > Hi Gereld, thanks for sending me your scripts. I haven't had time to > > go through it yet but it looks very complete. > > > Perhaps, but my scripts got rather convoluted along the way. > > > My script

search for window list?

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Kroth
So I have a machine that I use with screen to SSH to a whole bunch of other machines. Often times I have pages and pages of windows in the window list, each one with the name of the machine I'm SSH'd to contained in the window title. Is there a way to search on that list? Else, feature request?

Re: Dynamic Title

2009-06-17 Thread Brian Kroth
>I have followed the advice Brian gave here, and I can set this up easily >on my own system. Yet, when I start a terminal session, ssh to another >host from where I start screen, this solution with preexec doesn't work. >I have copied my (working) .bashrc, .screenrc and preeexec.bas

Re: Dynamic Title

2009-06-03 Thread Brian Kroth
Asif Iqbal 2009-06-02 17:47: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin > wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Asif Iqbal wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Asif Iqbal wrote: > >>> > On Tue, Jun 2,

Re: Keeping right aligned text in caption always visible

2009-05-31 Thread Brian Kroth
Alex Jurkiewicz 2009-05-30 23:11: > Hi all, > > I'm playing with my screen caption. Currently my caption looks like this: > caption always "%{= Kw} [%0c]%{= Kw} %-Lw%{= KW}[%50>%n%f* %t]%{= > Kw}%+Lw%=| %l | ${FULLHOST}" > > The output normally looks like this: > [23:06] 0$ tail:~ 1-$ vi:~ [2

Re: window screen title in ssh connection

2009-04-27 Thread Brian Kroth
JuanPablo 2009-04-25 19:37: > hi, > for change the title of my windows screen in the ssh connections add > in the file ~/.ssh/config > host remoteHost > user remoteUser > port 22 > hostname remoteIp > ForwardX11 yes > LocalCommand echo -ne '\ekremoteHost\e\\' > > now, the title of window connec

scripting screen windowlist?

2009-04-21 Thread Brian Kroth
Hello all, I'm trying to create a script that will send some text to particular screen windows using the "at" and "stuff" commands. To do this I need to be able to get the current list of windows from my script, which is run within one of the other screen windows. Is there a way to dump the out