Fwd: Why does "\024" mean `C-t'? (in bindkey example in man page)

2016-08-15 Thread Micah Cowan
Resending; meant to send this to the list, not privately. On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > > Lovely, thank you very much Axel and Pieter! > > Why does pressing ctrl-1 make 1, and pressing ctrl-3 make ^[ ? Pressing > ctrl-8 makes nothing, like Pieter said (you can't

Re: Binding the "Ctrl + ;" key combination to "focus right" command

2015-08-27 Thread Micah Cowan
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Gheorghe Lisca wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just start using GNU Screen and I want to set up my configuration file. > More precisely I am trying to bind the navigation commands > "focus left" to "Ctrl + j" > "focus down" to "Ctrl + k" > "focus up" to "Ctrl + l" and

Today's XKCD

2010-01-07 Thread Micah Cowan
Features screen. :D http://xkcd.com/686/ -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: Function keys in htop?

2009-09-07 Thread Micah Cowan
SMaddox wrote: > I apologise if this is a stupid question, but I have been searching for > the past hour and am going crazy because I can't find the answer. > > How do you pass function keys (F1,F2,etc) on to htop through screen? > Neither 'F3' nor 'C-a F3' brings up search in htop as it should.

Re: modifying terminfo via termcapinfo

2009-09-07 Thread Micah Cowan
Joahnn Gile wrote: > So what's wrong here, is termcapinfo not modifying the terminfo entry? You seem to be misunderstanding the purpose of termcapinfo. Its purpose is not to modify actual termcap or terminfo entries, in particular the ones that other applications might see and modify behavior for.

Re: Case insensitive search in copy mode

2009-08-25 Thread Micah Cowan
Danny Colligan wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any way to do a case-insensitive search in screen's copy > mode? The / and ? commands only seem to do case-sensitive searches. > (Or, for bonus points, is there any way to use regular expressions to > search in copy mode?) There's an "ignorecase on" sc

Re: Missing GNU Screen maintainer

2009-08-24 Thread Micah Cowan
Micah Cowan wrote: > Our beloved maintainer Sadrul Chowdhury has apparently been missing > since mid-July. And has since returned. Looks like he's well, and back, sorry for the alarm. :) -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. Maintainer of GNU Wget an

Missing GNU Screen maintainer

2009-08-23 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Our beloved maintainer Sadrul Chowdhury has apparently been missing since mid-July. This was brought to my attention when it became clear that he was about to miss the deadline for submitting a final evaluation for the Google Summer-of-Code student who

Re: Scrolling performance in vertical split-screen mode - screen vs. tmux

2009-08-09 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Jones wrote: > I was evaluating tmux over the weekend and though I'm not prepared to > switch any time soon, I couldn't help but notice that tmux's scrolling > in vertical split screen mode is both very fast and devoid of the > annoying artifacts

Re: who am i on screen

2009-07-20 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Please keep it on the list) Tales Macedo wrote: > Thanks for answer me > >Initially excuse my english. >When I try to run the command $ who am i on screen session, it does > not show anything. Type: > > $ screen > > (on screen ses

Re: who am i on screen

2009-07-20 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tales Macedo wrote: > Good Afternoon Friends, > >Why the command who am i don't work on screen ? That's very unlikely. Why don't you tell us exactly what you're trying, what you're seeing, and what you expected it to do that differs from the actu

Re: terminate screen session with childs

2009-07-15 Thread Micah Cowan
Rainhard wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a problem to kill screen and its childs. > I'm starting a program through rc.d scripts with > screen -dmS -- > So far everything works great, but if I make a kill on screen, > the child survives. > Anyway, if I'm starting the program with screen -mS ...

Re: Issues getting multiuser to work

2009-07-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dwight wrote: > I am new to screen, and am having this same issue with multiuser mode on > AIX. I saw Bug #15003 was opened for this problem, but was closed for > lack of info. I'm a sysadmin, not a developer, but I'd be > glad to provide more info f

Re: Multibyte characters in the Hardstatus line

2009-07-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wang, Roger wrote (way back in April): > Hi Michael, > > I used the attached patch so the utf8 hardstatus would display > correctly in my xterm titlebar. Is it ok or how could I improve it? Hi Roger, sorry this response is so long past your original

Re: Load averages reported by screen on HP-UX 11.11

2009-07-02 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Ackersviller wrote: > I've recently started displaying load averages in screen's harstatus line, > and notice something strange on one particular system. The numbers are > approximately four times the ones shown by the HP-UX uptime program. > >

Screen documentation tasks identified

2009-07-01 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So, as the documentation seems to be one of the biggest remaining obstacles to a 4.1.0 release of GNU Screen, and as it's been this way a very long time, I've taken one step towards trying to ease the prospect of getting this work done. I've gone thro

Re: Pair Programming Screencast (ssh, screen, vim and skype)

2009-06-29 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 oreng wrote: > I am planning to do a 10 minutes presentation about this topic. > Please watch my screencast and provide me any feedback/corrections you want. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFClpADY7Tc > > Also I have the following questions: > 1. Wh

Re: Problems scripting screen

2009-06-26 Thread Micah Cowan
Nelgin wrote: > Now, say I want to stuff a command.. > > screen -S machine1 -X stuff "who^J" > > This works. However if I put it in for a for look > > for i in `cat serverlist` > do > screen -S $i -X stuff "who^J" > done The most obvious explanation is that your for-loop isn't doing what you th

Re: How Can I Disabled Ctrl + A..B...C

2009-06-25 Thread Micah Cowan
I'm afraid I really don't know what you're asking for. Details? Tales Macedo wrote: > Good Evening, > >How Can I Disable Ctrl + a,b,c,d key functions on Screen ? ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/lis

Re: go down in seconds after scrolling up

2009-06-18 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 clemens fischer wrote: > (sorry for being late) > > On Wed-2009/05/13-16:44 tianlijian wrote: > >> When i use the `Shift+PgUp' to scroll back to the bash history, it >> will scroll down automatically in few seconds. What can i do to >> prevent it? I

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

2009-06-17 Thread Micah Cowan
David Chanters wrote: 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

Re: how to use "process"?

2009-06-16 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 clemens fischer wrote: > clemens fischer wrote: > >> is there a way to evaluate this register as screen commands? > > Thank you very much, Gerald Young and Micah Cowan! Looking at my older, > unanswered article I think I had a

Re: how to use "process"?

2009-06-15 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 clemens fischer wrote: > On Thu-2009/04/30-16:47 clemens fischer wrote: > >> Recently I needed a screen command sequence more complex than the >> usual key "bind" or "stuff". I turned to "process [key]", as the man >> page said: "command can be used

Re: disable blinking error

2009-06-12 Thread Micah Cowan
Pau wrote: > Hello, > > sometimes, when I am on a window, say window 3, and I forget about it > and try to move to the next one, I assume it's 3 and then screen > complains saying > > "This IS window 3 (zsh)." > > for some 20 (!) seconds. > > How can I disable that? Half a second would suffice.

FYI: was out of contact 4/15 - early June

2009-06-09 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So, the email address with under I was subscribed to the screen lists expired without my noticing. It was an email address I'd received for being a member of a group, and that membership had expired. I had not realized that this would mean I would no l

screenenv: make screen use the right display and ssh agent

2009-06-09 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://log.or.cz/?p=39 I would have opted for proxying instead of library call hijacking, but anything's better than nothing. Worth looking at. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Te

Re: Vertical Split

2009-06-07 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Terry wrote: > I'm confused. I read online that vertically splitting a window was > available as of 4.00.03, which is what my screen version claims to be, > yet when I type ctrl-a | (which means hold down ctrl and a, then > release and press sh

Re: security issues with screen setuid root

2009-06-07 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Nitsche wrote: > Hello list! > > I'm new to this list and here's my first question. > > I'd like to know which security issues are important when I'm setting > screen setuid root. > I tried that on one maschine to use the multiuser feature of

Re: Inside screen End key don't work

2009-04-15 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kazuo Teramoto wrote: > Hi, recent (git) version of screen changed my End key from ^[[4~ to > ^[[8~ now End key dont work on zsh and vim. I can remap ^[[8~ on zsh > and vim to End key, but I dont think this is the correct solution > someone have the te

Re: backtick with colors

2009-04-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JuanPablo wrote: > hi, > I try make a backtick with automatic change of colors > example > #!/bin/bash > #file name sbacktick > cadena="Bright red on white" > echo -e "\033[47m\033[1;31m $cadena \033[0m" > > in screenrc > backtick 1 60 60 $HOME/bin/

Re: when running vim under Solaris, terminal doesn't refresh properly

2009-04-10 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Langella Raphael wrote: > Hi, I'm running GNU Screen 4.00.02 under Linux RHEL 4u5. vim works > fine under Linux, but if I ssh to a Solaris machine from within > screen, then I've got some problem with vim. When I edit a file, I've > got some garbage af

Re: How to run command automatically after running screen?

2009-04-07 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ZelluX wrote: > Hi, all > > I'm trying to write a test script for xen hypervisor, it works like this: > 1. Run screen with two windows open > 2. On the second window, run _sudo xm create my-domU.conf_, and then run > _sudo xm console 2_ to attach to t

Re: screen questions

2009-04-02 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lehe wrote: > Hi, > Two questions about screen: > > 1. I was trying to switch from scroll back mode to command line mode by "C-a > :". However instead a ":" is at prompt and seems ready to recieve what I'll > type. So which mode did I enter actually a

Re: misc.c:619: error: too few arguments to function `setenv'

2009-03-28 Thread Micah Cowan
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Re: problems with mutt and xterm-title (new user)

2009-03-12 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ssiza...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 17:42, Micah Cowan wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> ssiza...@gmail.com wrote: >>> I've been playing around with screen for

Re: problems with mutt and xterm-title (new user)

2009-03-12 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ssiza...@gmail.com wrote: > I've been playing around with screen for the last two days and like it so far. > > But there is one thing that bothers me: When I start mutt from my > shell (bash, with gnome-terminal), the terminal title changes to mutt: >

Re: screen, PuTTY, and kernel config

2009-03-10 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lieb wrote: > Micah Iowan wrote: >> GNU ncurses has a specific entry for putty, so you might want to "tic" >> the latest terminfo definitions from ncurses (it's in a file named >> misc/terminfo.src, IIRC). And then, of course, have PuTTY set TERM

Re: screen, PuTTY, and kernel config

2009-03-10 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lieb wrote: > Florian Bender wrote: >> Chris Lieb wrote: >>> I have run into two issues getting screen to work with the Linux kernel >>> configuration utility (make config). >>> >>> First, in PuTTY, the display is garbled when the config utility

Re: changing location of uscreens/ ?

2009-03-05 Thread Micah Cowan
I don't know what you mean by "is working perfectly", but just because you place your screen sockets directory in a persistent location doesn't mean that your screen sessions will persist across a reboot: they simply cannot. -mjc Pau wrote: > no, actually the > > --with-socket-dir option > > is

Re: Using the numpad in nested screens

2009-03-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lieb wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: >> Try adding the line: > >> terminfocap screen* ks@:ke@ > >> to your final destination host's ~/.screenrc or /etc/screenrc, and see >> if that makes a difference in (fr

Re: Using the numpad in nested screens

2009-03-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lieb wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: >> The \E[?1 sets "cursor key mode", and the \E= sets "application mode". >> You may possibly want to keep \E= if it doesn't screw things up, so now >> try changing

Re: Using the numpad in nested screens

2009-03-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lieb wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: >> Try adding the line: > >> terminfocap screen* ks@:ke@ > >> to your final destination host's ~/.screenrc or /etc/screenrc, and see >> if that makes a difference in (fr

Re: Using the numpad in nested screens

2009-03-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lieb wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: >> Chris Lieb wrote: >>> I am a new screen user and have run into a problem. >>> When I ssh into a server, screen automatically starts, just as I want. >>> The number pad w

Re: bind pgup key to scrollback

2009-03-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Asif Iqbal wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Micah Cowan wrote: > Perhaps the easiest way to deal with it (for screen only), is to add the > following line to your ~/.screenrc or /etc/screenrc: > > termcapinfo xterm* k

Re: bind pgup key to scrollback

2009-03-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Asif Iqbal wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Micah Cowan wrote: > - What is the output of the "infocmp" command > >> # Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/lib/terminfo/x/xterm >> xterm|vs100|

Re: changing location of uscreens/ ?

2009-03-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micah Cowan wrote: > Pau wrote: >> Hello, > >> I was wondering whether it is possible to change the location of >> uscreens from /tmp to some other place, because it gets deleted >> everytime the computer boots, which i

Re: bind pgup key to scrollback

2009-03-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Asif Iqbal wrote: > Hi > > from my screen window I tried to bind the pgup key to scrollback like this > > :bindkey -k kP copy > > After that I hit `pgup' button and I get a `~' instead of expected > scollback behavior. Most likely the terminfo/te

Re: changing location of uscreens/ ?

2009-03-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pau wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering whether it is possible to change the location of > uscreens from /tmp to some other place, because it gets deleted > everytime the computer boots, which it does, because it is a laptop. > It would be very useful

Re: Using the numpad in nested screens

2009-03-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lieb wrote: > I am a new screen user and have run into a problem. > > When I ssh into a server, screen automatically starts, just as I want. > The number pad works without issue. I then ssh into another server, > where screen also automatically

Re: Exiting a list of screen sessions

2009-02-28 Thread Micah Cowan
Marc Lanctot wrote: > Typically I run commands on servers and let them run for some time.. > when I'm done I kill all the processes with one command. > > I would like to be able to kill all my screens in one command as well, > so I thought of parsing screen -r and sending a "kill command" to each

Re: windowlist string "(%3n) %{..g}[%{..Y}%t%{..g}]%{..g}%=%f"

2009-02-25 Thread Micah Cowan
Bruce Edge wrote: > I caught this off the "ssh in new screen window (Chris Henderson)" > thread and it showed me how to add more formatting to the window list, > but I don't understand the syntax completely. > > Where is in the docs? > > windowlist string "(%3n) %{..g}[%{..Y}%t%{..g}]%{..g}%=%f"

Re: Screen manual online

2009-02-23 Thread Micah Cowan
Micah Cowan wrote: > I find the index of commands from the texinfo-based docs to be > _particularly_ handy. You might want to bookmark that page: > http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Command-Summary.html Hm, guess I actually meant this one: http://www.gnu.org/softwa

Re: changing the socket name?

2009-02-23 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Davies wrote: > btw, the note in the manual > > _Caution_: The `$STY' environment variable still reflects the old > name. This may result in confusion. The default is constructed > from the tty and host names. > > could be a lit

Re: changing the socket name?

2009-02-23 Thread Micah Cowan
Aaron Davies wrote: > is it possible to change the socket name of an existing screen? C-a : sessionname newname -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ ___ s

Re: Screen manual online

2009-02-23 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:42:41PM EST, Micah Cowan wrote: >> The screen documentation is now available online at >> http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/ > > What's the story behind this docume

Announcing a new GNU Screen co-maintainer

2009-02-22 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm pleased to announce that Sadrul Habib Chowdhury is now a co-maintainer for GNU Screen, and will be taking my place as I will be stepping down from the official title. I do plan on continuing to do more-or-less exactly what I do, continuing with an

Screen manual online

2009-02-21 Thread Micah Cowan
The screen documentation is now available online at http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/ -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ ___ screen-users mailing

Re: tgetent: warning: termcap entry too long

2009-02-19 Thread Micah Cowan
Andy, Does xterm have an entry in your /etc/termcap? Please provide that. What do you get for "ldd screen"? The thing that bothers me about this, is that the failure point must be at screen, rather than the programs running under it, since the kend/kH is failing to be translated from \EOF to scr

Laptop kaput

2009-01-31 Thread Micah Cowan
Well, my primary system is toast now, so my activity level may drop dramatically (which is perhaps saying something :) ) for the next couple of weeks. Sorry! -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ _

Re: using screen logs

2009-01-30 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jae Norment wrote: > I use screen to log sessions where I patch Debian servers. Screen > captures ANSI control codes (like positioning and color changes), which > is probably appropriate, however, I want a version of the logs without > those codes so

Re: time formatting?

2009-01-28 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Pursell wrote: > William Pursell wrote: >> Aaron Davies wrote: >> >>> ok, here's a patch (i can't get github to work so this is against the >>> tarball http://www.wpursell.net/screen-4.1.0w.110-349d.tar.gz) >> the github address I gave is wrong

Re: capturing the bell

2009-01-28 Thread Micah Cowan
JuanPablo wrote: > Micah, > many thanks for you reply. > is posible capture of similarly the alerm messages of screen ? Unfortunately, I don't know of a practical way to do this. Perhaps someone more clever than I will think of something. -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting ent

Re: capturing the bell

2009-01-27 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JuanPablo wrote: > hi, > is posible capture the bell of screen in other program? > example: > if screen launch a bell, the dialog program is called > dialog --msgbox "hello world" 6 25 > > thanks > JuanPablos Try C-a : exec :.. /path/to/filter.pl

Re: updating the build

2009-01-26 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've slightly rearranged the order of your text somewhat, for my own convenience in responding. I apologize for taking so long to respond to your steady sets of patches and notices on this. And particularly, for promising to set up a hosted repository

Re: EOL switch?

2009-01-26 Thread Micah Cowan
Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > I could only observe this problem with screen and long-running > (or often typed-into) sessions of SBCL. But I hardly run any > other program in Screen... Didn't you say you could reproduce it in other apps as well, thus ruling out the app? -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer,

Re: EOL switch?

2009-01-21 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leslie P. Polzer wrote: >> I don't know of any screen commands that do this. I would expect it to >> be a property of the terminal; a setting of stty. See what stty says >> about the ocrnl or similar options when you do "stty -a". > > I can't. How wil

Re: EOL switch?

2009-01-19 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > Hi, > > it seems that some random screen command* switches Screen into > sending ^M instead of a proper newline. > > Does anyone here know of a command that switches things > like this? I don't know of any screen commands t

Re: Caption at the top

2009-01-15 Thread Micah Cowan
Michael wrote: > How can I move the caption line at the top of window? I'm afraid that's not currently possible. :( -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ _

Re: GNU Screen split vertically

2009-01-15 Thread Micah Cowan
Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:55:19AM -0800, moueza wrote: >> Ctl-A AltGr-| makes nothing >> > GNU screen cant split vertically by default. > Theres a patch for it though: http://fungi.yuggoth.org/vsp4s/ The current git sources at Savannah can. And it's a different implem

Re: Is there any way I can split long lines in .screenrc?

2009-01-09 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Trent W. Buck wrote: > Micah Cowan writes: > >> Yeah, screen doesn't allow split lines (or lines whose lengths are >> greater than 2048 bytes). > > Don't the GNU Coding Conventions have something to say abou

Re: control

2009-01-09 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 broz wrote: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:02:31 -0800 > Micah Cowan wrote: > > broz wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>>i have a question about gnuscreen which I think is great >>>> btw. I may have a hard time c

Re: screen on linux vs freebsd

2009-01-07 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Grant wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Michael Grant wrote: >> I have both a linux box and a freebsd box. I have just started using >> screen on the linux box. There seems to be some very definite >> differences in behavior between

Re: Is there any way I can split long lines in .screenrc?

2009-01-07 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Jones wrote: > Couldn't find anything in the usual repositories. > > Here's my current hardstatus line (length=190): > > hardstatus alwayslastline "%{+r wk}%H %{+b yk}%0` %{+b wk} %1` | %2` %3` |%4` > %{+b wk}| %{+b wk}%l%{+b wk} |%{+b gk} %n

Re: ;screen printed in top left corner

2009-01-07 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Wood wrote: > On (16:32 19/12/08), Dave Wood put forth the > proposition: >> On (18:54 18/12/08), Dave Wood put forth the >> proposition: >>> I find after switching screens a few times that I get either >>> ';screen' or >>> ';xterm-xf86-v40' pri

Re: Cursor shape with ncurses programs gets reset

2009-01-07 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Wood wrote: > I have a flashing block cursor set up because I find it very hard to see > the normal _ underline cursor - expecially when searching through man > pages etc. > > The problem comes when I run ncurses programs in screen. The cursor ge

Re: patch to change autoaka behavior

2008-12-06 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Osheim wrote: > I sent this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] awhile ago (which I think I'm > subscribed to) but still haven't seen it. So, I figure I'll send it to > this list (which seems pretty active). Are you sure you're subscribed? I saw it, and respond

Re: screen -X

2008-12-06 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Micah Cowan wrote: > >> As to FAQs, there's one on the wiki page that someone set up for the IRC >> channel (apparently?). I should put a link to that on the gn

Re: help to use screen command

2008-12-06 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Trent W. Buck wrote: > Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> screen sh -c "vim `find . -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp'`" >> title vim > > FWIW, sh -c 'vim find . -name \*.c -o -name \*.

Re: screen -X

2008-12-06 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Which reminds me -- in looking for docu on this subject and others, I > found the gnu.org screen page, and the only thing there is links to the > mailing list. Are there no official web-docs? FAQs? Or are they all

Re: Raggle

2008-12-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Is it possible to define "viewer" commands in Alpine that would do > either of the following: > > 1) Launch in a separate window and/or > 2) set the title correctly? > > Right now, my shell seems to step in and want

Re: help to use screen command

2008-12-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zaphod wrote: > Hi > > 1st of all, i am using screen for number of years now and like it very > much. > lately decided to upgrade my environment. So my question is. > > Using .screenrc file where wants to open window with vim. The vim should > also >

Re: control

2008-12-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (sorry, accidentally hit "Reply" instead of "Reply All") Micah Cowan wrote: > broz wrote: >> Hi, >> i have a question about gnuscreen which I think is great btw. I >> may have a hard time conveying wh

Re: screen -X

2008-12-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Lloyd wrote: > The -X option seems like it's intended for this purpose, but it seems > to be a no-op. The man page says "Note that this command doesn't work > if the session is password protected." To my knowledge the session is > not password prot

Re: Is it something I said? re:locking

2008-12-01 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > All, > > I apologize if I've argued a bit fervently in the past for what I felt > was a simple feature (i.e. support for screen to also use the "attach" > password as a "lock" password on systems that do not support

Re: Screen output get cut!

2008-12-01 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sheepa.org wrote: > * Since the playlist never gets cut when im writing in manually I'm > thinking this is some kind of screen -X stuff problem? * > * * It's unlikely to be related to the actual "screen -X stuff" command. It's possible that there's a

Re: Problem running screen in chroot

2008-12-01 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 head0r wrote: > Hi, > > i tried putting screen in a chrooted environment. I copied the > /etc/passwd and the libs listed by "ldd /usr/bin/screen". > But when i try starting the screen in the chroot, i get the following > error message: > > getpwuid()

Re: layout load issue

2008-11-21 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benoit ROUSSELLE wrote: > but i was not able to have these commands to work: > layout name "foo" > layout load "name" layout save "foo" layout select "foo" :) layout title "foo" <-- to change the name of the current layout. See /case RC_LAYOUT:/ in

Re: backspace and tab broken?

2008-11-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pia Mikeal wrote: > Greetings, > > I am not sure if this is a bug in screen or something else, but > screen seems to be a package I can take out of the equation and the > problem goes away. Here is my issue, at the commandline, my virtual > termi

Re: Bigger annoyance with locking.

2008-11-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Trent W. Buck wrote: > >> Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >>>> According to the manpage, screen call

Re: Bigger annoyance with locking.

2008-11-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Trent W. Buck wrote: > Are there any lurkers on the list that would care to chime in with > useful examples on how they use LOCKPRG? > > A while back, what I wanted was the ability to blank the screen after > two minutes of inactivity, and then *lock*

Re: Bigger annoyance with locking.

2008-11-12 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > According to the manpage, screen calls /bin/lock or whatnot -- there's > no way through .screenrc to change this (why?)...and yet the output of a > locked screen looks significantly different from when I use lock alon

Re: Silly question about "lock"

2008-11-12 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > hey, is there a way to customize the message displayed on the "lock", > for example: > > Whether it was locked by time, or idle? > What time it was locked? > What HOST it's running on? These could all be managed now

Re: Binding a multi-key sequence to a multi-command

2008-11-12 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gorsuch, Ryan wrote: > > The manual indicates that I can bind several commands to a key using the > "process" command but no examples or syntax are given. > > What I'd like to do is bind the sequence: "C-a s 1" to the commands: > "split, focus, selec

Re: sending CRLF via screen -X stuff

2008-11-11 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Elliot wrote: > Thanks for the help. > > Would this be correct? > > while true; do screen -S 19268 -X stuff "signon"\012; sleep 1m; done Ah; actually, I don't believe octals are interpreted from the commandline (a shortcoming, IMO). Anyway,

Re: sending CRLF via screen -X stuff

2008-11-10 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Elliot wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to send a remote command to an existing screen session: > > while true; do screen -S 19268 -X stuff "signon"; sleep 1m; done > > However, I need to send a new line (CRLF) after the command "signon". Ch

Re: problem with screen.rxvt TERM and less

2008-11-10 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Micah Cowan writes: > >> Oh, is that the problem? > >> Screen has its own built-in "alternate screen buffers"; just add the >> "altscreen" command to your ~/.screenrc.

Re: problem with screen.rxvt TERM and less

2008-11-09 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Micah Cowan writes: > >> I'm not entirely sure I understand what the symptom is that you're >> describing for running less under the screen-managed window, but it >> sounds like it migh

Re: problem with screen.rxvt TERM and less

2008-11-07 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henry S. Thompson wrote: > I built screen 4.0.3 from source, with cygwin patches, on cygwin, with > ncurses 5.7, and rxvt for my terminal emulator. > > The 'less' program has an irritating fault in this configuration which > I can't figure out how to

Re: Setting window title in ssh'ed host

2008-11-05 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 02:39:13PM -0800, Micah Cowan wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Gokdeniz Karadag wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> This i

Re: Setting window title in ssh'ed host

2008-11-05 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gokdeniz Karadag wrote: > Hi, > > This is more like a story, I am trying to automatically set "GNU screen > window title" equal to the hostname that is connected by ssh. This has been a recurring need, solved in various ways. Thomas Adam just point

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