Re: how to check if screen is working

* jonnexen on Monday, November 22, 2010 at 09:24:22 +0100 > I'm gonna writing a bash install-script. There I want to make a > command that checks if screen us running. If it's running the script > should be going on. If not there should be an error. Any ideas? In case you mean: is the script runni

Re: Escape characters

* Jostein Berntsen on Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 09:28:30 +0100 > On 27.01.10,09:47, Jean-Rene David wrote: >> * Christian Ebert [2010.01.27 06:15]: >>> I switched to after I found out how to set it: >>> >>> escape ^@@ >> >> That is very swee

Re: Escape characters

* Jostein Berntsen on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:55:52 +0100 > I use the "'" key as the escape character in screen, but this is not > always convenient because of it's use in programs a.o. Do any of you > have a suggestion for an escape character that is more efficient than > the original

Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm

* Chris Jones on Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 15:02:43 -0500 > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:20:21PM EST, Christian Ebert wrote: >> 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 >>

Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm

Hi Chris, * Chris Jones on Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 11:19:32 -0500 > It's been over a couple of weeks, and here's what I observe with the > version of GNU/screen that I downloaded from the git repository: > > 1. the mutt help/status lines at the top & bottom of the screen are not > redrawn c

Re: Mutt status lines under GNU/screen

* 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 >> same symptoms. > > Looks like this works, though I also had to comment out the

Re: Mutt status lines under GNU/screen

* Chris Jones on Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 09:13:04 -0500 > The mutt mailer displays by default two one cell-high bands at the top > and bottom of the screen, something that looks a bit likes so: > I should add that I use the vanilla screen-256color-bce entry that ships > with debian lenny:

Re: screen vertical split speed vs dvtm

* Sadrul Habib Chowdhury on Monday, December 07, 2009 at 23:08:02 -0500 > * Sadrul Habib Chowdhury had this to say on [07 Dec 2009, 15:53:02 -0500]: >> It's because screen tries to refresh the display an aweful lot of time. I >> have a sort of a hacky fix for this at the moment. A nicer fix looks t

Re: Make screen title flash ...

* Alan Young on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 16:34:48 -0600 > Is there a way to make a screen title flash? > > If I'm using the wrong word here, I appologize. On my status line I have > > Screen(s): 0* irssi 1 stuff 2 morestuff 3 logs 4 htop 5 remote-server ... > > I want to make the "0* irssi

Re: Reinitialize screen numbers

* Solaris Treize on Tuesday, June 09, 2009 at 17:52:11 +0200 > Hello, > Is there a way to reinitialize the screens numbers ? > I have this screen session : > 0. HOME > 1. myhost > 2. thishost > 3. otherhost > > If I close the session nr 2 I got : > 0. HOME > 1. myhost > 3. otherhost > > Is there

Re: darwin ports screen and deflogin undefined

* Doug Alcorn on Friday, April 24, 2009 at 08:07:48 -0400 > I just did an upgrade to screen. To be honest, I'm not sure what > version I was on. For a very long time I've had "deflogin on" in my > .screenrc. When I upgraded I get a complain that it's an unknown > command. Unsurprisingly, the bas

Re: can 256color be recognized automatically?

* Tom Scogland on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 10:03:07 -0400 > my solution to this problem was to have a line in my screenrc like the > following > source ${HOME}/.screenrc-${TERM} > > and just create a few files like .screenrc-xterm and > .screenrc-xterm-256color etc that have all my terminal spe

Re: can 256color be recognized automatically?

* Chris Jones on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 05:21:46 -0400 > On second thoughts .. the above doesn't make sense.. > > :-( ;-) If I don't hear any more I might go for something like: if echo $TERM | grep -E -e "-[0-9]+color$" > /dev/null 2>&1 then screen -T "screen-${TERM##*-}" else sc

Re: can 256color be recognized automatically?

* Chris Jones on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 04:50:09 -0400 > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 06:57:38PM EDT, Christian Ebert wrote: >> At the moment I have to set explicitly >> >> term "screen-256color" > >> to get 256 colors working. Otherwise $TERM stays simp

can 256color be recognized automatically?

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 working. Otherwise $TERM stays simply "screen", even when called from an xterm-256color

Re: updating the build

* William Pursell on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 18:44:22 + > Christian Ebert wrote: >> Do you have your own gnulib installed on OSX/i386? atm I'd have >> to grab it just for wscreen ;-) > > Yes, I just clone the git repo for gnulib to $HOME/gnulib > and put $H

Re: updating the build

* William Pursell on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 19:09:46 + > I've succesfully built with default settings on OSX/i386, > freeBSD 6.3/i386 and netBSD/sparc64. These are all BSD > leaning, so I would appreciate feedback from anyone on > the build on other platforms.The git repository is a

Re: How to Reorder and Set Starting Window Numbers

* Charles A. Templeton III on Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 07:40:43 -0600 > On a related question, is it possible to reorder or switch the window > numbers? For example take window '1' and change it to window '8' (if > there is no window '8') or switch windows '1' and '8' (if a window '8' > alread

Re: Not having to wait for a message after hardcopy.

* Sean Faber on Friday, January 09, 2009 at 21:01:54 -0800 > I have > > bind ^b eval "hardcopy /tmp/screendump" "exec urlview /tmp/screendump" Ah, nice. Immediately adapted/stolen ;-) > in my .screenrc It works as I intend except that I have to wait for 1 sec > while screen waits for me to rea

Re: how to increment scroll buffer

* Zaphod on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 11:50:48 +0200 > I am working with screen from git. > The buffer for scrolling is too small. How can i change it? defscrollback 1 # or whatever you like in your screenrc. c -- \black\trash movie_C O W B O Y_ _C A N O E_ _C O M A_ Ein deutsche

Re: zsh under leopard, screen not executing zprofile, wiping PATH

* Aaron Davies on Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 23:51:31 +0800 > i have an old powerbook g4 which i recently upgraded (in place, not > archive-and-install) from tiger to leopard. now, when i start screen, > zsh apparently resets the PATH to the bare basic four directories > (overriding the heavily

Re: query current window title to stdout?

* Michael Parson on Friday, August 15, 2008 at 11:42:35 -0500 > I've got a user that wants to be able to, with a single command, rename > the title for the current window when he edits a file to the name of the > file he is editing. > > What I've come up with is a bash function: > > svim () { >

Re: Apps creating new windows?

* Trent W. Buck on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 12:35:52 +1000 > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:10:18PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >> Is there ANY implementation at all, for when an app is running under >> screen, for it to be able to launch a "new window" (for example, to >> view an attachme

Re: Setting window title in ssh'ed host

* Gokdeniz Karadag on Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 03:10:00 +0300 > Setting the following in all machines achieves what I want, it sets > screen title to hostname, > PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -n -e "\033k${HOSTNAME}\033\\"' > but when I connect to the machine out of screen, It prints the hostname > liter

Re: latest version of screen

* Mag Gam on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 11:14:41 -0400 > By looking at the CVS tree, > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/screen/src/?root=screen&sortby=date#dirlist > > I see screen updated 13 months ago. Does that sound right? I wouldn't know. That's what I'm using. If there's more recent stuff

Re: latest version of screen

* Mag Gam on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 09:16:27 -0400 > Where can I get the latest version of screen? I want to use the Vertical > split feature :-) $ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/screen login $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/screen co -P screen c -- /"\

jump to monitored window with activity

Hi, Is there any way jump to the (last) monitored background window that notified of its activity? c -- Vim plugin to paste current GNU Screen buffer in (almost) any mode: ___ screen-users mailin

Re: how to cd in .screenrc?

* Sonia Hamilton on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 21:23:48 -0600 > I have different .screenrc's for different development environments > (which I start up using screen -c .screenrc_foo). For each terminal I > create in .screenrc, how do I change directories, so each terminal > starts in the directory

Re: (no subject)

* ara.t.howard on Tuesday, October 09, 2007 at 11:33:41 -0600 > On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:22 AM, cga2000 wrote: >> IIRC .. you first need to have a version of screen that supports 256 >> colors _and_ specify --enable-colors256 when you ./configure it prior >> to compile. > > right. the Portfile on OS

Re: Colour remnants from previous program

* cga2000 on Friday, May 04, 2007 at 21:37:01 -0400: > Can you actually see the artifacts on his screenshot? My guess is bottom right corner; should be green brackets, and yellow chars. c -- Vim plugin to paste current GNU Screen buffer in (almost) any mode:

Re: Colour remnants from previous program

* cga2000 on Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 20:42:55 -0400: > Also, at least in my environment, CRTL-L usually redraws the screen and > usually takes care of removing whatever garbage I have on the display. Hm, not necessarily of the color garbage. I have to do the following in my vimrc, which might be