Re: How to unhide 'status-bar'?

2023-03-06 Thread Clark Wang
On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 1:24 PM wrote: > Hi. > > I was trying to figure out a way to hide/unhide the 'status bar' (not sure > if > that's the term) showing the names of the windows. The one that shows up > at the > bottom of the screen session by default. > > So I did `prefix : hardstatus ignore`

Re: 256/Truecolor support in screen

2023-01-08 Thread Clark Wang
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 7:07 PM Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > While playing around with truecolor support, I found out while screen > "master" seems to support truecolor since at least 5 years, none of the > releases since then have gotten this feature. > > This has the effect that screen, at least

Re: Compiling screen on macOS Monterey?

2022-04-24 Thread Clark Wang
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 1:30 AM Dun Peal wrote: > I'm trying to compile screen on the latest macOS Monterey, but the > `./configure` step fails with the following error: > > configure: checking select... > configure: checking select with -lnet -lnsl... > configure: error: !!! no select - no scre

Re: GNU Screen v.4.9.0

2022-02-06 Thread Clark Wang
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 9:18 AM Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > I think many software packages deliver pre-built ./configure script because > it can be executed using only using a Bourne shell, and one does not have > to have autotools installed to get the Makefile. > +1

Re: Show scroll value in status line

2021-07-20 Thread Clark Wang
On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 9:14 AM Federico Ramírez wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > I have a custom status line set up with `hardstatus`. That works nicely. > Something I’d like to add is some kind of metric when scrolling. When I > enter copy mode with C-a [, the status line temporarily shows the line

Re: Screen command line history non-feature?

2020-11-23 Thread Clark Wang
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 5:56 AM Jérôme Carretero wrote: > > I find myself more and more using screen's `exec` feature > Curious any particular reason you use "exec" so much? -clark

Re: List activity

2017-10-30 Thread Clark Wang
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:23 AM, dan d. wrote: > > I haven't been seeing much list traffic. > > Is it still active and do I have the right list address to send messages? > v.4.6.2 was just released on Oct 23: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2017-10/msg7.html _

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

2017-06-30 Thread Clark Wang
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Hi, > > I often use screen within su - username sessions, so that active > terminal (e.g. xterm) is owned by a user different from one using > su, e.g.: > > su - test > screen > > This worked fine before 4.6.0 (up to 4.5.1), with 4.6.0 I

Re: GNU Screen v.4.6.0

2017-06-30 Thread Clark Wang
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > * Migrate from fifos to sockets > > In Cygwin I get a socket error when I try to start screen 4.6.0: > > $ screen -AURD > shadow socket open: No such device or address > > Any ideas? I looked in the configure script for an option to fo

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

2017-06-29 Thread Clark Wang
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. > > > /dev/pts/14 is indeed not owned by user test, but this way screen > > have worked fine for as long as I can r

Re: Send break to screen

2016-09-29 Thread Clark Wang
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Michael Parson wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Clark Wang wrote: > >> >> Where is this kind of usage (stuff ^X) documented? I did not found it in >> screen manual. >> > > The 'stuff' command is in the screen manpage:

Re: Send break to screen

2016-09-29 Thread Clark Wang
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Colin Richardson wrote: > @Jostein Berntsen > > You were so close. I started playing around with the "stuff" command you > recommended and started to see a pattern forming. I eventually came to the > idea of removed the single quotes around your suggestion 'stuff

Re: a few qs about man page

2016-09-06 Thread Clark Wang
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 4:21 AM, David Niklas wrote: > Hello, > I decided to take the time to read the man page (miracles DO happen), and > I wanted to know more about a few config file options that were unclear to > me. > > bce > Why would you do this? > register > Poor description IMHO. What is

Re: Any difference between `screen -r` vs `screen -x` when attaching to an already attached session?

2016-07-04 Thread Clark Wang
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Dun Peal wrote: > Thanks, Andrew. > > My question is: specifically when attaching to a detached session, is > there any difference between using `screen -r` and `screen -x`? > > For example, suppose I have a detached session called "foo", which I want > to attach t

Re: programatically determine which window am I in?

2015-06-25 Thread Clark Wang
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > I want to write a screen macro with logic that depends on which > window (name) is active. How would I do that? > Screen would set the $WINDOW variable. Not sure if it's what you want. -clark > > Thanks > > Eric > >

Re: confusion over -R argument

2014-03-27 Thread Clark Wang
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Liam Hopkins wrote: > All: > > I am trying to understand the -R argument. It doesn't seem to behave in > the way the man page indicates it ought. `screen -v` shows: > Screen version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06 > > relevant `man screen` snippet: > > # -R attempts t