multi-user screen: switching windows isn't reflected in screen instances

2009-06-17 Thread David Chanters
Hi all, I like the feature of multi-user screen. I often do this via: screen -x -S somesessionname And it works great -- until, that is, I change windows in screen (via ^a a, or ^a 1 -- where "1" could be any number depending on the number of windows in screen). As soon as I do this, the chang

Windows groups with window splits

2008-08-12 Thread David Chanters
Hi - i don't know if this has been asked before, but i am using the GIT version of screen and am wondering if i can do the following: Assume i have two windows under screen, window1 and window2. In window1 i issue the :split command and quite rightly then get a split window. However, if i then

Hardstatus format question

2008-07-06 Thread David Chanters
Hi all, This should be simple, hopefully. :) I'm wanting to produce a hardstatus line which looks like this: | 1 | 2 | 3 | *4 | Where "*4" in this instance refers to the window with focus. But I can't work out how to do it. I note from the documentation that "w" refers to both the window num

Blinking text: %{+B} attribute.

2008-07-02 Thread David Chanters
hi all, i asked a similar question on the rxvt-unicode mailing list, and whilst they were helpful, i think i ultimately need to ask here, since all avenues seem to lead back to GNU screen. :) i'm using the %{ +B} attribute in places on my hardstatus. Screen runs inside rxvt-unicode (urxvt) and