Re: OS X Yosemite Terminal app eating scrollback output

2015-08-05 Thread David T. Pierson
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 08:45:58AM -0400, Avram Dorfman wrote: > I found a post telling me to add "termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@“ to > .screenrc. > (http://slaptijack.com/system-administration/mac-os-x-terminal-and-gnu-screen-scrollback/). > > That works. My question is: What changed? Why is this nec

Re: Problem with gnu screen

2015-03-29 Thread David T. Pierson
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 02:26:17PM -0400, - wrote: > I have a socket with two windows.. Both are started in screenrc including > my browser in the first window. > > Iuse the web browser lynx. At least once a day, often the first time, when > I want to go to an url on the web screen dumps me from

Re: Putting 'banner' into each started screen.........

2014-05-18 Thread David T. Pierson
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:12:02PM -0400, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:47:12AM +0100, Another Sillyname wrote: > > which does work and shows the banner but also throws up a message... > > > > Attaching from inside of screen? > > > > I call a script from inside of /etc/profile

Re: Putting 'banner' into each started screen.........

2014-05-16 Thread David T. Pierson
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:45:03AM +0100, Another Sillyname wrote: > I'd like the default bashrc banner to show in a screen session when it > starts, but can't think of an easy way of doing it..ideas? Is bash configured to show the banner in a login shell only? If so, pass --login to bash whe

Re: Opening multiple windows in a screen from a detached state.

2014-05-03 Thread David T. Pierson
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 06:55:29PM -0400, David Blackman-Mathis wrote: > I am trying to automate the process of running, in parallel, every > file in a directory in new windows in a new screen session. The > portion of this I'm missing is the ability, from an attached state, to > open a new window

Re: Scrollback and other commands don't work

2014-04-19 Thread David T. Pierson
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 02:59:06PM -0400, Alex wrote: > I does recognize some of my ~/.screenrc settings, including my keybindings. > Could it have something to do with my version of gnome-terminal? Scrollback > works in the terminal alone, when screen isn't running... The way you have worded this

Re: screen height issue

2014-03-15 Thread David T. Pierson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:10:38PM +, Michael Grant wrote: > I use screen on bsd and debian through putty. On the freebsd system (which > is quite old), I can use the scroll bar in the window. On the debian > system, screen itself seems to manage the lines off the top of the putty > window, I

Re: screen -s -/bin/bash

2014-03-03 Thread David T. Pierson
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 12:32:55PM -0600, Rhys Ulerich wrote: > I'd like to manually tell screen to fire up login shells in each > window. Please note I do not want to change my ~/.screenrc. > > >From reading screen --help it seems like invoking > screen -s -/bin/bash > should do that as I ex

Re: environment variables

2013-12-18 Thread David T. Pierson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:06:36PM +0100, Nico Schlömer wrote: > I would like to execute a program in a shell that needs a custom path > added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This happens in my .bashrc by default, so > on the regular non-screen shell I'm getting no problems. > On a detached screen however, th

Re: environment variables

2013-12-06 Thread David T. Pierson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:08:36PM +0100, Nico Schlömer wrote: > I get > > $ screen > --> screen > $ echo $FOO > bar > > but a detached shell yields nothing: > > $ screen -s /bin/bash -L -d -m echo $FOO > $ There are a couple of things to say here. The lack of output has nothing to do with the

Re: Starting screen from logon script

2012-09-27 Thread David T. Pierson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:30:55PM +0100, Another Sillyname wrote: > Is there a way to start the screen -x root/Master session and still > allow this calling script to finish? It sounds like you want the `exec' shell builtin, which you can use like: exec screen -x root/Master http://www.gnu.or

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

2008-11-21 Thread David T. Pierson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:51:31PM +0800, Aaron Davies wrote: > 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 I encountered this recentl