Could not write /var/run/utmp: Interrupted system call

2006-08-20 Thread Jonathan Martin
Hey everyone. Has anyone ever seen this when starting screen, or detaching from screen: Could not write /var/run/utmp: Interrupted system call And when creating new windows: Could not write /var/run/utmp: No such process Utmp is one of those unix-y things I never bothered trying to

Re: Making screen look for a pattern to detect "activity"

2006-05-20 Thread Jonathan Martin
Maybe a marriage of Expect and Screen is in order :) On May 19, 2006, at 7:18 PM, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. However it would have been nice if screen could do this. I would then be able to monitor commands I hadn't anticipated the need for monitoring when I start

Re: termcap-query feature

2006-02-02 Thread Jonathan Martin
It's a reference to the film masterpiece Back to the Future. If you find a reason to have 88 simultaneous colors on your terminal, your entire computer is whisked back in time to the late 70's. The result will be some music, then the creation of the VT100/ANSI X3.4 standards will be prevent

Re: (no subject)

2005-04-04 Thread Jonathan Martin
Pardon me while I daydream for a second... - A dedicated OSX screen terminal client, it could be configured to bounce the dock icon when a bell is received or a monitored window changed. Similarly, in Windows or contemporary unix desktops like Gnome, tasktray icons could flash or otherwise indic

Re: omit current window on scroll in split-screen -> scroll through windows in history order

2005-03-20 Thread Jonathan Martin
I also regularly max out the number of windows, and even worse, I changed the maximum number of windows to 40 in the source before compiling (MAXWIN if I remember correctly). I found that renumbering the windows helps, grouping similar windows together so scrolling between isn't as long. I've