Re: some screen windows freezing

2020-12-11 Thread Michael Parson
. Check the man page FLOW-CONTROL section as well as about the '-f' screen flag, the 'defflow' and 'flow' .screenrc options about how to control and/or disable this feature inside of screen. -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX KF5LGQ

Re: good Linux terminal emulator for screen?

2019-09-26 Thread Michael Parson
lly selected in screen to some other X11 window. macOS has a similar command to xclip that will stuff your buffer file into the macOS clipboard, thought it's been long enough since using a Mac that this info has scrolled out of my wet-ware scrollback and would have to look it up again. -

Re: Is there a screen command to identify the current visible window number?

2018-09-12 Thread Michael Parson
de in the middle. This should prevent the blocking. -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX KF5LGQ ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: Cannot re-attach to screen session after screen-4.3.1-r1 to screen-4.4.0 upgrade

2017-04-11 Thread Michael Parson
You might need to remove the SUID bit from the screen binary first. Check the man page for more info. -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX KF5LGQ ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: problem with using screen and a GUI

2017-01-19 Thread Michael Parson
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Tim RENAUD wrote: Hello, Before I get into details, I just want to confirm this is the mailing list I use to discuss my issue? That depends, what is your issue? This list is about using gnu-screen, the terminal multiplexer. -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX KF5LGQ

Re: How to programmatically open new screen window?

2016-12-23 Thread Michael Parson
creen -x ${sessionname} -X select newwin # feed the new window a command-line screen -x ${sessionname} -X at "newwin" stuff "echo hello world^M" -- snippet -- -- Michael Parson Austin, TX KF5LGQ ___ screen-users mailing list screen

Re: Sending Command Pipeline to a detached Screen

2016-11-23 Thread Michael Parson
en -S screen-name -X stuff "echo hello world^M" -- Michael Parson Austin, TX KF5LGQ ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: Send break to screen

2016-10-03 Thread Michael Parson
On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, Clark Wang wrote: 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: stuff [stri

Re: Send break to screen

2016-09-29 Thread Michael Parson
s, I don't even have to type in my password. I use the above method rather than telling screen to start the ssh session as the window process so that when the ssh session dies, I can just switch back to that window, hit the up arrow and return to get back in. -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX KF5LGQ ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: hot change screens locale

2016-08-07 Thread Michael Parson
setting. If a second parameter is given, the display's encoding is also changed (this should rather be done with screen's "-U" option). See also "defutf8", which changes the default setting of a new window. -- Michael Parson Austin, TX KF5LGQ

Re: gnu screen defrag

2016-06-17 Thread Michael Parson
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:12:29 -0500 (CDT) Michael Parson wrote: Greetings fellow gnu-screen users. I remember someone asking for something like this a while back, and I think there were a few solutions, but I never tried them out. I decided I

gnu screen defrag

2016-06-16 Thread Michael Parson
Just please don't flame for re-inventing a wheel when better alternatives are out there that I didn't find. :) It works for me. If it works for you, enjoy. -- Michael Parson Austin, TX KF5LGQ ___ screen-users mailing list screen-user

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

2015-09-09 Thread Michael Parson
egion commands bind j focus down bind k focus up bind h focus left bind l focus right Then you can "C-a j" to move focus down, etc. Not quite as smooth as having it on a single key-binding, but it gets the job done. Bonus, having your CTRL key where it's

Re: Opening vim in new xterm+screen window in same session

2015-08-13 Thread Michael Parson
, will be the one you originally ran the command in. Now, for extra fun, you can now do things like: for i in *.cc, do svim $i ; done This will open a new screen window running vim for each file matching the glob (*.cc), all named for the file that is being edited. -- Michael Pars

Re: How can I stuff in a new window of an existing screen session?

2015-02-05 Thread Michael Parson
is technically two commands, but one command line: screen -t "test" ; screen -X at "test" stuff "echo test^V^M" The first one creates a new screen window called 'test'. The second one tells screen to stuff the string "echo test" to the window n

Re: invoking in screen binding

2012-09-30 Thread Michael Parson
en "exrc" line with the argumant pasted from the screen buffer `q'. My problem is that I cannot make this command submit with a carriage return or enter despite the attempts you see with a cntrl-V Any clues as to how I can get the command to submit with the binding? Eric -- Michael Pa

Re: Sending the Ctrl-C keystroke into a screen window

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Parson
e: $ screen -X at "test" stuff "^C" -- Michael Parson Unix Thug Austin, TX KF5LGQ ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: Get current working directory from another screen window

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Parson
n your current screen, and you should now be in that directory. If you were to pop back over to screen 4, you would see the pwd command that was executed. -- Michael Parson mpar...@bl.org Austin, TX KF5LGQ ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: automatic screen copy

2011-06-05 Thread Michael Parson
er, i will move to someother window and if i do 'c-]' the copied text should be printed out. is it possible in screen ? Read the man page for screen, look for 'bufferfile'. -- Michael Parson mpar...@bl.org ___ screen-users mailing

Re: How to log while launching screen

2011-05-26 Thread Michael Parson
gin screen 0 log # end Now, when you start screen, screen 0 will get logged to $HOME/screenlog.0 -- Michael Parson mpar...@bl.org ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: cant get screen for my Solaris10 i386 server

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Parson
such capabilities, like compiling, etc. > Thanks in advance. You should be able to find what you need on www.blastwave.org, free-softare pre-compiled for Solaris. -- Michael Parson mpar...@bl.org ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gn

Re: Q: I'm searching a way to disable Ctrl-Z

2010-12-14 Thread Michael Parson
However, if you really want to disable Ctrl-Z, read up on the shell command 'trap'. From reading around on google, different implementations seem to use different signals, but try 'trap Ctrl-z' as a search term. -- Michael Parson mpar...@bl.org _

Re: query current window title to stdout?

2008-08-15 Thread Michael Parson
On Aug 15, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Michael Parson wrote: I've got a user that wants to be able to, with a single command, rename the title for the current window when he edits a file to the name of the file he is editing. Can this be done? or is the solution I've come up with g

query current window title to stdout?

2008-08-15 Thread Michael Parson
to be more like echo -ne "\ek$oldname\e\\" However, it seems that just about every screen command only spit output to the status bar, hardline, or a new screen, except 'screen -l'. Can this be done? or is the solution I've come up with going to be about a

Re: Getting screen size into the env?

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Parson
ed this feature, I only discovered it when I re-read the man-page after one of the 3.x releases. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: Apps creating new windows?

2008-07-31 Thread Michael Parson
7;s a simple way of implementing it (i.e. if the calls exist, etc). -Dan Mahoney -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: screen in single user mode - "cannot open /dev/console"

2008-05-25 Thread Michael Parson
be a little more automatic. Debian/Ubuntu might have their own method. Run the seach string 'Ubuntu run level configuration' through google and see what you can find. This link looks like it might get you on your way: http://geekvalley.blogspot.com/2008/03/tweak-ubuntu-boot-processes-run

Re: Strange lock problem under screen 4.00.02/03

2007-12-10 Thread Michael Parson
lost and there's nothing I have found to make it go again. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: Terminal emulators with fullscreen support

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Parson
y >> doesn't have this option. > > Yes, you are right. It would be a GNOME specific thing, sorry to have > bothered everybody. Or quit using gnome and get something w/o any decorations, or any bloat at all, like evilwm. =) -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: Screen window closes on application exit

2007-03-30 Thread Michael Parson
; > I think the context was clear: simply to have a zombie exit > to a shell. Obviously, going into detail here was a > distraction. in your .screenrc screen -t mutt 0 stuff "mutt\015" This will create a screen in slot 0 an run mutt from the she

Re: more than 40 screens?

2007-03-29 Thread Michael Parson
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:13:19PM -0700, Tom Bombadil wrote: > Michael Parson wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 06:17:44PM -0700, Tom Bombadil wrote: >>> Hi all... >>> >>> screen never show more than 40 screens (screens 0 to 39). >>> Any way

Re: more than 40 screens?

2007-03-28 Thread Michael Parson
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 06:17:44PM -0700, Tom Bombadil wrote: > Hi all... > > screen never show more than 40 screens (screens 0 to 39). > Any way around that? Recompile with MAXWIN > 40. default used to be 10. =) -- Michael Parson [

Re: I'm confused about TERMCAP

2007-03-13 Thread Michael Parson
stalled on all the systems you might be logging into, starting screen with the -Tvt220 (or xterm, or whatever your preference) will do the right thing (I use bash, so adjust if you use a csh variant): $ type -a screen screen is aliased to `screen -T vt220&#x

Re: I'm confused about TERMCAP

2007-03-12 Thread Michael Parson
p(5) and/or terminfo(5) (termcap is the old/BSD way, terminfo is the new/SysV way), mostly depends on which lib your program was linked against. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: I'm confused about TERMCAP

2007-03-09 Thread Michael Parson
eycode mismatch is happening. (Terminal > App>bash>screen>bash>ssh>bash>vim) It's very frustrating. I alias screen to start with vt220 emulation: screen -T vt220 -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ screen-users ma

Re: different font sizes for different windows.

2006-12-13 Thread Michael Parson
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:23:12PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: > Will this ever be a possibility in screen? That is a function of your terminal emulator software, not the multiplexer running inside of it. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ scr

Re: terminal devices left open after logging out

2006-11-16 Thread Michael Parson
t get applied when using the pkgsrc version shows a lot of references to getutent/utmpx fixes -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: Bash 3.1 and login shells

2006-10-23 Thread Michael Parson
e: I normally have 'deflogin' set to 'off,' but I turned it on just now and screen and bash still worked, what symptoms are you seeing? I'm using NetBSD/i386 3.0, both bash 3.1.1(1)-release and screen 4.00.02, compiled out of pkgsrc. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good value for defobuflimit

2006-10-22 Thread Michael Parson
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 02:57:59AM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > On 10/22/06, Michael Parson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:19:14AM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> The following line has been in my screenrc for

Re: Good value for defobuflimit

2006-10-21 Thread Michael Parson
for calculating a good value? It's entirely dependant on the speed of your terminal. If you're on a dialup, you might want to bump it up, if it's local or a decent broadband, you're probably OK with the default of 256 bytes. 16k seems high enough for just abo

Re: AIX 5.2: compiling problems

2006-10-04 Thread Michael Parson
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 07:21:33PM +0200, Karl Voit wrote: > Hi! > > I want to use GNU screen on an IBM AIX 5.2 system and I could not > compile it: > > ,[ uname ] > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/voitka/downloads/screen-4.0.2>uname -a > | AIX uxibm275 2 5 0040801A4C00 > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/

Re: how to start screen from .bashrc

2006-09-19 Thread Michael Parson
e the history features of the bash shell. When I log in, I hit ^R, then start typing screen, I usually don't have to get farther than about sc before it has found the match and I just hit return and I'm off. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: vim syntax highlighting does not work in screen

2006-08-24 Thread Michael Parson
vim when I wanted vim and vi when I wanted vi. This is basically because vim is NOT vi and there are a lot of times I want to use the real thing. On (most) Linux boxes, real vi is not shipped, so I have to go find an rpm for nvi, which is the Berkeley vi, and install that. In any case, this

Re: Passing Environment Variables In A Config File

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Parson
ll my sessions are set to vt220. I use vt220 instead of vt100 so stuff that colorizes the output works properly. I also remove the default /etc/screenrc file that RedHat/Fedora installs. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: vim syntax highlighting does not work in screen

2006-08-17 Thread Michael Parson
Might be worth a shot. Don't have to delete it, just move it out of the way. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: vim syntax highlighting does not work in screen

2006-08-16 Thread Michael Parson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:54:57PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On 8/16/06, Michael Parson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 12:21:17PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: >>> On 8/16/06, aladdin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >>>> [EMAIL P

Re: vim syntax highlighting does not work in screen

2006-08-16 Thread Michael Parson
s term type to vt220 (or xterm), than to install the right bits on every box out there, especially ones that I only touch on rare occasion. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: vim syntax highlighting does not work in screen

2006-08-16 Thread Michael Parson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:10:29PM +0800, aladdin wrote: > > Michael Parson wrote: >> >> The vim colorization happens outside of screen? >> >> Do you have "syntax enable" set in your .vimrc? >> > > Sure it works outside of SCREEN. > >

Re: vim syntax highlighting does not work in screen

2006-08-16 Thread Michael Parson
d. I configured the vim to > show line numbers and I found they were colorized(green), but the file > contents were not. Seems strange... The vim colorization happens outside of screen? Do you have "syntax enable" set in your .vimrc? --

Re: vim syntax highlighting does not work in screen

2006-08-14 Thread Michael Parson
term type: alias screen='screen -T vt220' which works fine for everything except when I try to run vim under sudo, the highlighting works, but colors don't, so I do the TERM=xterm trick above, which makes the colors show up again. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Showing /dev/tty12 (or similar) syslog output in screen window

2006-08-13 Thread Michael Parson
ve... been a little behind with my e-mail. > >> And the best part of all: Your totally and utterly wrong! > > I'm glad. > >> Defscrollback is initially set to 100 and COPY_PASTE is #defined by >> default. > > Can I change

Re: Garbled text when switching windows

2006-07-21 Thread Michael Parson
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 05:38:32PM -0400, Ian Wat wrote: > * Michael Parson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:21:17PM -0400, Ian Wat wrote: >>> Anybody using Mac OS X experience garbled text when switching >>> windows in screen? It kinda looks l

Re: Garbled text when switching windows

2006-07-20 Thread Michael Parson
ing, but I can't really remember what exactly I didn't like about the Terminal.App. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users

Re: Screen Start Script

2006-07-09 Thread Michael Parson
ets created w/o it, an (even accidental) ^S will lock up that screen. "^A:xon" will unlock it. Sometimes I have to detach and re-attach to get it back. Rarely do I have to all-out kill screen and start over fresh. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can screen protect me against dropped ssh connections?

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Parson
sn't find one to attach too. I tend to use '-rd' instead, since it will notify me if the old screen died off for some reason, it will also force a detach if the session is still attached somewhere, even to a shell that I'm no longer logged into. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: workaround to not overwrite .bash_history

2006-06-12 Thread Michael Parson
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:22:48AM -0500, Michael Parson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:34:06PM +, Henrique Niwa wrote: > >> hi, I would like to unify my .bash_history around the windows that >> screen creates. What i want is just bash adding lines to the bash >> h

Re: workaround to not overwrite .bash_history

2006-06-12 Thread Michael Parson
hat info is stored in memory until the shell exits. You can set bash to append to, rather than overwrite, the existing history file though, at least in bash 3.1.1, which is what I'm running. Take a look at 'set -o histappend' and see if that does what you're looking