Re: Using screen

2021-07-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 02:30:15PM EST, david kerns wrote: > just type screen ... if you're in a brand new window with no other text.. > you may not notice the subtly > hit return a few times on a new window.. then type screen .. should be a > fresh window.. then exit, and you'll get your old scree

Re: Windowlist menu customization

2018-06-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 06:11:03PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:48:53AM EDT, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:45:03 -0400 Chris Jones > > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:26:12PM EDT, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:

Re: Windowlist menu customization

2018-06-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:48:53AM EDT, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:45:03 -0400 > Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:26:12PM EDT, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:38:48 -0400 > > > Chris Jones wro

Re: Windowlist menu customization

2018-06-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:48:53AM EDT, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:45:03 -0400 > Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:26:12PM EDT, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:38:48 -0400 > > > Chris Jones wrote:

Re: Windowlist menu customization

2018-06-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:26:12PM EDT, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:38:48 -0400 > Chris Jones wrote: [...] Quick update... For now I'll just use the workaround provided as a demo by the attached file. If you're interested, just run: $ screen -c overvi

Re: Windowlist menu customization

2018-06-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:26:12PM EDT, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:38:48 -0400 > Chris Jones wrote: > [...] > > (I don't think it's possible with current screen, you would need to add > some kind of tty escape for windows command, so you c

Windowlist menu customization

2018-06-25 Thread Chris Jones
GNU/screen provides a list of windows in tabular form that you can access via CTRL+a " or the GNU/screen CTRL+: windowlist command. By default this list of windows displays rather little information: window number, window title and flags. This is basically what users like myself already have at t

Windowlist menu customization

2018-06-24 Thread Chris Jones
GNU/screen provides a list of windows in tabular form that you can access via CTRL+a " or the GNU/screen CTRL+: windowlist command. By default this list of windows displays rather little information: window number, window title and flags. This is basically what users like myself already have at t

Re: screen: how to toggle between 3 windows?

2013-10-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:00:31PM EDT, ping song wrote: > hi folks: > we all know c-a c-a is to switch between 2 windows, which is a VERY > useful operation, but a lot of time I need to quickly switch between > current and the last 2 windows visited ever. is there a quick key > stroke to archive

Re: screen "name" ???

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:53:29AM EDT, t1jump wrote: > I am using screen on a remote device (BeagleBone) through my Ubuntu > PC. I enter a screen session through the Ubuntu Gnome terminal (screen > /dev/ttyUSB1 115200). Once on the BeagleBone I start a screen session > and try to name a screen (s

Re: command to clear screen buffer?

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:24:19PM EDT, Phil! Gold wrote: > * Chris Jones [2013-04-27 17:20 -0400]: > > One way to do this would be to stick the two commands in a file: > > > > | $ cat $HOME/.scrbuff_screenrc > > | scrollback 0 > > | scrollback 500 > >

Re: command to clear screen buffer?

2013-04-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 02:07:35PM EDT, Konstantin Svist wrote: [..] > Can that be made into a shortcut? As suggested in the addendum above you could bind the command sequence to a key. One way to do this would be to stick the two commands in a file: | $ cat $HOME/.scrbuff_screenrc | scrollbac

[ADDENDUM] command to clear screen buffer?

2013-04-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 01:53:57PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 05:08:45PM EDT, Captain Wiggum wrote: > > > Some times I vim a confidential file or a p/w vault. > > Then this clear text info is trapped in my scroll back buffer forever. > > Is ther

Re: command to clear screen buffer?

2013-04-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 05:08:45PM EDT, Captain Wiggum wrote: > Some times I vim a confidential file or a p/w vault. > Then this clear text info is trapped in my scroll back buffer forever. > Is there a command to purge the scroll back buffer? > If not, it seems like a good feature for the next ve

Re: no up arrow command history

2012-12-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 09:25:23AM EST, Eric Smith wrote: > > > For more than a year now, screen does not give me the option > > > of cycling through history with the up/down arrows in colon > > > mode. > > > > > > Till now I was not sure if this was a blessing or a curse. > > > Now I want it back

Re: alpha as window number?

2012-11-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 11:05:24AM EST, Benjamin Bradley wrote: > I've been using screen for a few years and love it, but I tend to keep > open a large (>10) number of windows, similar to my web browsing habits. > I'm wondering if it's possible to expand the window numbers to include > alpha as we

Re: Using 'stuff' to send characters from one account to a second account's session

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 01:45:53PM EDT, Lars Noodén wrote: [..] > Yes, screen -ls works from both accounts to detect the first user's > session. So it is proof that multiuser is working. This works from > the second account to detect the first user's session: > > screen -S user1/myscrn -

Re: Using 'stuff' to send characters from one account to a second account's session

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:03:16PM EDT, Lars Noodén wrote: [..] > I'm still getting the 'No screen sessions found' error. Are you sure > that 'stuff' is being sent from a second user account. If both > terminals are logged into the same account, 'stuff' works nicely. If > they are both logged

Re: Using 'stuff' to send characters from one account to a second account's session

2012-09-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 03:25:28PM EDT, Lars Noodén wrote: [..] > What is the right syntax to send from the second account? Sample that works here: | % screen -S myscrn | % screen -S myscrn -X 'stuff ls ' . creates a screen session with socket name 'xscrn' - single window that runs my defaul

Re: multiple child windows for screen

2012-09-06 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:50:53PM EDT, rufino wrote: > hi experts: er.. that would be me.. right..? ;-) > i am newbie for screen. is there a way to open, say, two or three > screen session simultaneously on one display? > at work, we do ssh to remote jump station. from the shell, i fire up >

Need to unbind TAB key - I think!

2012-08-06 Thread Chris Willard
is currently bound to the focus command. Any help with this would be appreciated. Regards, Chris -- How many altos does it take to change a lightbulb? None; they can't get up that high. ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org

Re: problem when split window

2012-04-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:42:25PM EDT, 夏凯 wrote: > i know that, i just don't know that i have to use C-a c to create > a shell after i split, this is different from tmux, in tmux, when you > split the windows, it create the shell automatically. also, i find C-a > c in man, it was used to create a

Re: alias ls does not work in screen

2012-03-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:43:27PM EDT, Jingxin Feng wrote: > Hello, > I set up alias ls as ls -F --color=auto in .bash_profile and it works fine. > However, when I start screen, it does not work. Do I need any special > setting in .screenrc? Thanks > > system: 2.6.35.13-92.fc14.x86_64 > > .scre

Re: Two column layout

2012-01-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:30:53AM EST, Rhys Ulerich wrote: > Is it possible to have two panes hold a single window (much like a two > column layout in a magazine)? > It'd be sweet to have > A|D > B|E > C|F > where A, B, C, D, E, F are sequential lines from, say, a text editor > and | is a scre

Re: wall linux command not working?

2012-01-06 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:11:54AM EST, Vladimir Todorov wrote: I've run out of ideas.. > | $ screen -v > | Screen version 4.01.00devel (GNUa6eea7b) 2-May-06 OK. Naturally, my assumption was that some patch or other might have introduced a bug in this area. All the same, may be worth taking a p

Re: wall linux command not working?

2012-01-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 10:41:36AM EST, Vladimir Todorov wrote: > | Were you trying to tell your users they should go home & celebrate the > | New Year...? > Haha. I was just trying to find a way to broadcast a message stating > that something has happened (like an event). The 'wall' command work

Re: wall linux command not working?

2011-12-31 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:16:08PM EST, Vladimir Todorov wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Today I had the need to broadcast a message to all logged in users. > I tried the `wall` command and it worked fine. But if the user is > using screen the message is not displayed. In other words if you are > wo

Re: How to set "screen" to show in more than one screen length

2011-07-23 Thread Chris
Ramons suggestion is good but I think you may want all screen activity in your terminal applications buffer. What OS & terminal emulator are you using? For Ubuntu / xterm you must edit /etc/screenrc: # To get screen to add lines to xterm's scrollback buffer, uncomment the # following termcapinfo

Re: Threaded comments & indenting, w3m browser, $TERM=screen.linux

2011-01-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:21:49PM EST, John Magolske wrote: > The package that takes care of this on my Debian Sid system is > w3m-img: > > w3m-img ... inline image extension support utilities for w3m ... > provides some utilities to support inline images for w3m on terminal > emulator in

Re: Threaded comments & indenting, w3m browser, $TERM=screen.linux

2011-01-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:17:34AM EST, John Magolske wrote: [..] > This is Debian Linux (Sid) running screen+w3m in a framebuffer console: > > http://b79.net/temp/linux-fbconsole-screen-w3m.png Thanks for the screenshot. Now I understand what you were referring to, although, screen or no scr

Re: Threaded comments & indenting, w3m browser, $TERM=screen.linux

2011-01-20 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:26:21AM EST, John Magolske wrote: [..] > > The output of w3m -dump is identical whether used with or without > screen, in an fb-console or in an xterm -- vimdiff shows all files > dumped to be identical. Those files, as well as the properly indented > text file obtaine

Re: how to check if screen is working

2010-11-22 Thread Chris
how bout using output from: screen -ls something like: if [[ `screen -ls|grep -c tached` -gt 0 ]]; then echo "screen is running";else echo "screen is not running";fi On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:24 AM, jonnexen wrote: > Hello, > > I'm gonna writing a bash install-script. There I want to make a

Re: Run a command on startup on a specific window, don't close window on programm exit

2010-11-15 Thread Chris
in .screenrc, will this work with byobu ? > > Thomas; > > > > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 03:03, Chris wrote: > >> Stuff is a screen command and the 2 lines I gave you were meant for your >> .screenrc file. >> >> Stuff is used to stuff the given

Re: Run a command on startup on a specific window, don't close window on programm exit

2010-11-14 Thread Chris
"%{kW} %=%{.kG} %H:%{.kY}%1` %{.bW} %-w%{.rW}%f%n %t%{-}%+w %{.kG} %D %m/%d %C%a %{.Wk} %u%=" screen -t NS0 screen -t NS1 stuff "~/test.sh\015" $ $ screen -c .screenrctest On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Thomas Manson wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I don't underst

Re: Run a command on startup on a specific window, don't close window on programm exit

2010-11-14 Thread Chris
Do this: screen -t NS0 stuff "/home/thomas/scripts/connectToServer/ns0\015" Add the "\015" which is the octal code for a Carriage Return. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Thomas Manson wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm configuring screen to open several windows, and automatically connect > to some serve

screen halting on startup?

2010-10-30 Thread Chris Poole
Hi, I'm connecting to a mac mini remotely through ssh. When I invoke screen on the mini, the cursor drops to the next line, and that's it. Nothing else happens. It doesn't seem to respond to ^c either: I drop the ssh connection via "[return]~." screen starts up ok on the same machine if using a s

Re: basic screen question

2010-09-08 Thread Chris
Read about copy/scrollback mode in man page C-a [ C-a C-[ C-a esc (copy)Enter copy/scrollback mode. C-a ] (paste .) Write the contents of the paste buffer to the stdin queue of the current window. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:17 PM, rufino wrote: >

Re: Mutt status lines under GNU/screen

2010-01-20 Thread Chris Jones
I have been able to work around this issue by doing the following: 1. Installing the latest version of ELinks from the git repos. 2. Setting term to screen-256color-bce in my ./screenrc 3. Invoking mutt with TERM=screen-256color This took care of the tearing of the screen. The spurious charact

Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm

2010-01-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:27:15PM EST, Christian Ebert wrote: > * Chris Jones on Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 15:02:43 -0500 [..] > > This is debian lenny, so it came pre-compiled but definitely > > configured for 256 colors. Per dpkg, it's elinks 0.11.4-3. > See http:

Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm

2010-01-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:20:21PM EST, Christian Ebert wrote: Hello Christian, > I've played around with elinks a bit by now, and, with bce unset > (fro mutt), cannot reproduce it with git HEAD from elinks. I had > some flickering with older versions, although no need to refresh. > > What is yo

Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm

2010-01-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:37:04PM EST, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: [..] > Yes! I could reproduce the problem as well! > > I have checked in a fix (a6eea7b4d). Please try it and let me know how > it works. Thanks for the report. Hello Sadrul, It's been over a couple of weeks, and here's wha

Re: Mutt status lines under GNU/screen

2010-01-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 06:54:42AM EST, Christian Ebert wrote: > * Chris Jones on Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 04:16:45 -0500 > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:19:46PM EST, Christian Ebert wrote: > >> Try screen-256color (without -bce), with -bce I can observe the > >> sa

Re: How to use screen configuration with command option

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:19:42AM EST, Aaron Davies wrote: > On Monday, December 28, 2009, wrote: [..] > >> Do you mean something like this: > >> > >> $ ssh u...@host > >> $ screen -S $HOSTNAME > >> $ screen -S $HOSTNAME -X hardstatus alwayslastline "Hello World!" > >> $ screen -S ..          

Re: How to use screen configuration with command option

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:38:35AM EST, joyd...@infoservices.in wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:44:46 -0500, Chris Jones > wrote: [..] > > Do you mean something like this: > > $ ssh u...@host > > $ screen -S $HOSTNAME > > $ screen -S $HOSTNAME -X hards

Re: How to use screen configuration with command option

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 01:30:14AM EST, joyd...@infoservices.in wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:28:18 -0500, Ed Blackman wrote: [..] > > My understanding, from this thread and other messages he's posted, > > is that he has a great number of servers that he wants to connect to > > and then run

Re: Mutt status lines under GNU/screen

2009-12-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 06:54:42AM EST, Christian Ebert wrote: > * Chris Jones on Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 04:16:45 -0500 > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:19:46PM EST, Christian Ebert wrote: > >> Try screen-256color (without -bce), with -bce I can observe the > >> sa

Re: Mutt status lines under GNU/screen

2009-12-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:19:46PM EST, Christian Ebert wrote: [..] > Try screen-256color (without -bce), with -bce I can observe the > same symptoms. Looks like this works, though I also had to comment out the "bce on" statement in my .screenrc - otherwise screen initiatializes $TERM to screen-

Mutt status lines under GNU/screen

2009-12-26 Thread Chris Jones
> [Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:40:31AM EST] Chris Jones │ │ ▄▄ │ │ From: Chris Jones │ To: screen-users@gnu.org │ Subject: Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm │ │ On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:08:02PM EST, Sad

Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm

2009-12-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:35:22PM EST, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: [..] > Nah, a 'git pull' from the source tree should be enough. Never got 'git pull' or 'git-pull' to work, complaining I'm not telling him which branch I want to merge with, etc. As an aside, with the proliferation of versio

Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm

2009-12-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:37:04PM EST, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: > * Chris Jones had this to say on [24 Dec 2009, 10:42:38 -0500]: [..] > Yes! I could reproduce the problem as well! Yes sorry for this, er.. Xmas present.. all I could afford :-) It made Vim all but unusable, looked

Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm

2009-12-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 04:33:30AM EST, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: > * Chris Jones had this to say on [08 Dec 2009, 03:40:31 -0500]: > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:08:02PM EST, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: > > > > > I have checked in a fix for this (revision e8d36bf1)

Re: Copy-scrollback mode -- VIsual feedback in window caption?

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:28:50AM EST, Alexander Steinert wrote: > Chris Jones, Tue 2009-12-15 23:45 CET: > > Maybe the new feature was not necessary after all, since it's quite > > possible to acquire the habit of hitting '^A m' when coming back to > > one

Re: Copy-scrollback mode -- VIsual feedback in window caption?

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:13:57PM EST, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: > * Chris Jones had this to say on [15 Dec 2009, 16:22:07 -0500]: [..] > > Although what I had in mind was something that would display permanently > > and that would refresh itself automatically when the

Re: Copy-scrollback mode -- VIsual feedback in window caption?

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:10:42PM EST, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: > * Chris Jones had this to say on [15 Dec 2009, 15:08:57 -0500]: > [snip] > > > > Without additional changes to the code, is there any way I could > > display the x,y coordinates of the cursor p

Re: Copy-scrollback mode -- VIsual feedback in window caption?

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:19:09PM EST, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: [..] > I haven't committed the changes yet, still testing (patch attached, > should someone want to try it out). Opinions? Does a very nice job like so: caption always "%?%P%{+u kw} copy-mode %{+u wk} %:%{+u wk} %?" hardstatu

Re: Copy-scrollback mode -- VIsual feedback in window caption?

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:03:39AM EST, Hugo Heden wrote: [.. > Well, sure, but on the other hand something "really disruptive" would > probably be more disturbing than helpful in the long run. > > I *do* think that some gentle visual feedback for copy-scrollback-mode > would have its place, eve

Re: Copy-scrollback mode -- VIsual feedback in window caption?

2009-12-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:19:57AM EST, Hugo Heden wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury > wrote: > > * Hugo Heden had this to say on [10 Dec 2009, 15:31:53 +0100]: > > > Good day all, > > > > > > I would like to add some visual feedback for whether a window is > > > in

Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 04:33:30AM EST, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: > * Chris Jones had this to say on [08 Dec 2009, 03:40:31 -0500]: [..] > > I am not familiar with git, could you explain how to set this up? > > Try ./autogen.sh first, then ./configure. Thanks, the f

Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:08:02PM EST, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: > I have checked in a fix for this (revision e8d36bf1) [1]. It'd be > great if you test it out and let me know if the performance is good. > Also, testing for possible regression would be great. Let me know if > you (or anyone e

Re: Format strings -fu: truncating/padding

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:46:52AM EST, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi list, > > I've been using screen for a couple of years with a hardstatus string > stolen on the web and tinkled a bit afterward. But now I'd like to > improve it. > > Format escape sequences are fairly easy to understand (althou

Re: resize region

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:38:11AM EST, Zaphod wrote: > Hi All, > > i have Ubuntu 8.10 with Screen version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06 > > How to resize width of a region? Are you talking about this? http://www.mail-archive.com/screen-users@gnu.org/msg01032.html If not, please clarify. CJ

Re: utf8 + alt_charset = broken?

2009-11-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:19:21PM EST, Atom Smasher wrote: [..] > is there an easy way to properly fix this? am i doing something wrong? or > is this a bug in screen? Seems to work OK here: $ echo '^[(0 q w e r t y u i o p } { a s d f g h j k k l z x c v b n m ^[(B' ─ ┬ ␊ ⎼ ├ ≤ ┤ ␋ ⎺ ⎻ £ π

[OT] Function keys in htop?

2009-09-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 10:45:37PM EDT, SMaddox wrote: > I apologise if this is a stupid question, but I have been searching > for the past hour and am going crazy because I can't find the answer. > > How do you pass function keys (F1,F2,etc) on to htop through screen? > Neither 'F3' nor 'C-a F3'

Re: Scrolling performance in vertical split-screen mode - screen vs. tmux

2009-09-06 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:58:58AM EDT, Micah Cowan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 [..] I believe I forgot to mention that the "slowness" and "flickering" does not occur in the rightmost pane. In other words, if I split the screen down the middle, start a shell, and issu

Re: Scrolling performance in vertical split-screen mode - screen vs. tmux

2009-08-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:58:58AM EDT, Micah Cowan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 [..] > I haven't looked at the tmux code. But I was speaking with Nicholas > Mariott, tmux's author, about the (very recently merged) vertical split > code, and I did not get the impressio

Scrolling performance in vertical split-screen mode - screen vs. tmux

2009-08-09 Thread Chris Jones
I was evaluating tmux over the weekend and though I'm not prepared to switch any time soon, I couldn't help but notice that tmux's scrolling in vertical split screen mode is both very fast and devoid of the annoying artifacts & flickering that I see in gnu/screen. I fact, with tmux, you can split

Re: how to kill some borked elements in screen

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:29:08PM EDT, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > >The way to work around this issue as recommended by the manual is > >either not to use Ctrl-a as your screen escape key or to rebind kill > >to so

Re: how to kill some borked elements in screen

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:38:51PM EDT, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009, Albert Vilella wrote: > > >Hi, > >I've got a screen session with about a dozen of terminals, and a > >couple of them are basically unresponsive. I can navigate to them in > >screen, but they don't res

Re: how to kill some borked elements in screen

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:12:14PM EDT, Albert Vilella wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a screen session with about a dozen of terminals, and a couple of > them are basically unresponsive. > I can navigate to them in screen, but they don't respond. Is there a way to > kill them or hide them so that > the

Re: history list for Ctrl-exc-?, Ctrl-esc-/, Ctrl-]

2009-05-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:21:56PM EDT, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote: > * Edward Peschko had this to say on [20 May 2009, 16:11:54 -0700]: > > All, > > > > I was wondering if anyone had plans for adding a history list for the > > ctrl-esc-?,/, ] commands listed above.. > > > > Basically, I want

Re: nested hardstatus line

2009-04-20 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:13:30AM EDT, j...@mi11er.net wrote: > If I start screen and set the hardstatus line on one host, and then > ssh into another machine where I also use screen with a hardstatus > line, I end up with 2 hard status lines. Is there a way to consolidate > this down so that on

Re: ssh and bash

2009-03-24 Thread Chris Henderson
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Aaron Davies wrote: > for 3, condition the creation of the function on your being in screen > ([ "$STY" ] || ...) Thanks. Could you please elaborate this a bit? I'm not quite sure what I need to put in .bashrc. ___ scr

ssh and bash

2009-03-24 Thread Chris Henderson
In my .bashrc I have ssh() { screen -t "${1...@}" ssh "$@"; } - this opens a new screen window when I type "ssh server" from inside screen. But if I try to ssh to any server from outside of screen, my bash gets stuck and nothing happens. Does anyone know how to get rid of this issue? Thanks. __

Re: screen, PuTTY, and kernel config

2009-03-20 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/10/2009 3:20 PM, Chris Lieb wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: >> Chris Lieb wrote: >>> Micah Iowan wrote: >>>> GNU ncurses has a specific entry for putty, so you might want to "tic" >>>> the late

Re: can 256color be recognized automatically?

2009-03-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:08:54AM EDT, Christian Ebert wrote: > * Chris Jones on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 05:21:46 -0400 > > On second thoughts .. the above doesn't make sense.. > > > > :-( > > ;-) Yeah .. wait till you're fully awake (or sober) till yo

Re: screen command creates new window instead of new instance.

2009-03-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:42:38AM EST, Geraint Edwards wrote: > The workaround is simple - remove (unset) STY within the xterm shell. Or start your second session like so: $ screen -m -c .other_screenrc The "-m" likely does the same thing as unsetting STY but I found this while reviewing scree

Re: can 256color be recognized automatically?

2009-03-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 04:50:09AM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > ncl=$(tput colors) > > case "$ncl" in > '16') > TERM=screen /usr/local/bin/screen > ;; > '256') > TERM=screen-256color /usr/local/bin/screen > ;; > esac O

Re: can 256color be recognized automatically?

2009-03-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 06:57:38PM EDT, Christian Ebert wrote: > Hi, > > $ screen -v > Screen version 4.01.00devel (FAUd87a0d8) 2-May-06 > > that's latest from git repo, and latest ncurses(w) + xterm. > > At the moment I have to set explicitly > > term "screen-256color" > to get 256 colors wor

Re: screen, PuTTY, and kernel config

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micah Cowan wrote: > Chris Lieb wrote: >> Micah Iowan wrote: >>> GNU ncurses has a specific entry for putty, so you might want to "tic" >>> the latest terminfo definitions from ncurses (it's in a file named

Re: screen, PuTTY, and kernel config

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micah Iowan wrote: > Chris Lieb wrote: >> Florian Bender wrote: >>> Chris Lieb wrote: >>>> I have run into two issues getting screen to work with the Linux kernel >>>> configuration utility (make config).

Re: screen, PuTTY, and kernel config

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Bender wrote: > Chris Lieb wrote: >> I have run into two issues getting screen to work with the Linux kernel >> configuration utility (make config). >> >> First, in PuTTY, the display is garbled when the config uti

Re: Using the numpad in nested screens

2009-03-04 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micah Cowan wrote: > Chris Lieb wrote: >> Micah Cowan wrote: >>> Try adding the line: >>> terminfocap screen* ks@:ke@ >>> to your final destination host's ~/.screenrc or /etc/screenrc, and see >>&

Re: Using the numpad in nested screens

2009-03-04 Thread Chris Lieb
ions. I added the line: termcapinfo screen* ks@:ke@ to ~/.screenrc on the final host and the numpad now works normally when in a nested screen session. (I assume that's what you meant in your last email.) Thanks, Chris Lieb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comme

Re: Using the numpad in nested screens

2009-03-04 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micah Cowan wrote: > Chris Lieb wrote: >> I am a new screen user and have run into a problem. > >> When I ssh into a server, screen automatically starts, just as I want. >> The number pad works without issue. I then ssh into

Using the numpad in nested screens

2009-03-03 Thread Chris Lieb
number pad, it no longer works until I exit out of that nested screen session. If I create a new screen, the number pad works there, but not in the screen where I'm ssh'd into another host. How do you get the number pad to work in a nested screen? Thanks, Chris Lieb -BEGIN PGP

Re: ssh in new screen window

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Henderson
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Andy Harrison wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Chris Henderson > wrote: >> When I SSH to a server, I would like screen to open that SSH >> connection in a new window and (re)name that window as that server's >> name. I

ssh in new screen window

2009-02-23 Thread Chris Henderson
When I SSH to a server, I would like screen to open that SSH connection in a new window and (re)name that window as that server's name. I have seen this done somewhere before using hardstatus but I don't have that config. Here's my .screenrc file. startup_message off defscrollback 5 escape \0

Re: Screen manual online

2009-02-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:35:42PM EST, Micah Cowan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Jones wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:42:41PM EST, Micah Cowan wrote: > >> The screen documentation is now available online at > >>

Re: Screen manual online

2009-02-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:42:41PM EST, Micah Cowan wrote: > The screen documentation is now available online at > http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/ What's the story behind this document? As a hobbyist, and although I was fairly familiar with the man page on my system, I found this so ea

Re: Showing Inactivity/Activity of Other Windows on HardStatus Line

2009-02-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 05:53:58AM EST, Charles A. Templeton III wrote: > That works perfectly. I didn't see that in the man pages. Is it there > or did I just miss it? $ man screen "The 'c' and 'C' escape may be qualified with a '0' to make screen use zero instead of space as fill character.

Re: screen command creates new window instead of new instance.

2009-01-31 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:42:38AM EST, Geraint Edwards wrote: > Chris Jones said > (on Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:46:19PM -0500): > > each time I ran "screen -c .screenrc-manual" from the > > "child" xterm, it created an additional window in the

screen command creates new window instead of new instance.

2009-01-30 Thread Chris Jones
This left me speechless until I could figure out what was happening: I was running a screen session started like so: $ screen -S xscrn I wanted to test some prospective changes to my .screenrc, so from this same screen session I started an xterm: $ xterm -tn "xterm-256color" .. and proceed

Re: Variable colors in hardstatus line

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:33:25PM EST, Joe Zbiciak wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > > > I need to conform to screen's "STRING ESCAPES" syntax for coloring and > > therefore I can't just use the underlying xterm's ctlseq's as I was > > na

Re: Variable colors in hardstatus line

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:50:44PM EST, Adrian Rollett wrote: > I've found that the only way to implement something like this is to > have your backtick script vary the output according to the > temperature. For instance, here's a fragment from a script I use to > output the current disk use, col

Variable colors in hardstatus line

2009-01-27 Thread Chris Jones
My hardstatus line invokes fairly elaborate backticks that tell me all I need to know about the current state of my system. I was thinking of making it more readable by enhancing it with a bit of color. One backtick for instance tells me how hot my system is running and since /proc/acpi/thermal_z

Re: Killing backticks when bouncing screen.

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:11:45AM EST, Gerhard Siegesmund wrote: > Hello CJ > > I, for example, use the following script to monitor the number of > messages on my mailbox: > > > #!/bin/sh > > FETCHMAIL='/usr/bin/fetchmail'

Re: Killing backticks when bouncing screen.

2009-01-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 08:31:18AM EST, Malte Skoruppa wrote: [..] > >Thinking I would avoid the overhead of starting new processes, > >particularly for stuff that requires frequent updates in order to be > >relevant .. such as CPU utilization, I thought I'd write scripts > >that run in the back

Killing backticks when bouncing screen.

2009-01-19 Thread Chris Jones
I have written a few scripts that display monitoring counters on the hardstatus line. Thinking I would avoid the overhead of starting new processes, particularly for stuff that requires frequent updates in order to be relevant .. such as CPU utilization, I thought I'd write scripts that run in th

Re: External programs for hardstatus and screen blocking.

2009-01-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:15:35AM EST, David Francos (XayOn) wrote: [..] > Also, as I said, I use it on my laptop, so I'd love to have a battery > metter there. I made a console script that displays it, but I'd really > love to see it on hardstatus. How can I make hardstatus exec an > external p

Re: Is there any way I can split long lines in .screenrc?

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:44:51AM EST, Micah Cowan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Jones wrote: > > Couldn't find anything in the usual repositories. > > > > Here's my current hardstatus line (length=190): > > >

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