Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Can I make screen 'copy' its output into xterms scrollback buffer? I find the following lines in my .screenrc: --- # To get screen to add lines to xterm's scrollback buffer, uncomment the # following termcapinfo line which tells xterm to use the normal screen buffer # (which has scrollback), not

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:00:18 +0200, Will Trillich wrote: > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > picky. I use a lightly mofified version of Sven Guckes' configuration, the only interesting bits I've got ar

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 07:03, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alternatively (or in addition), is it easy to start xterms on the > > different virtual desktops - I can specify x,y,w,h but can I specify > > virtual desktop? > > This depends on the window manag

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 6:18 pm, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > n the keybindings section, there's a statement like this: > bindkey -k k7 detatch > > Shouldn't it be: bindkey -k k7 detach > > (spelling of detatch?) Indeed it should, sorry. Fixed now... -- "If women knew, if they even had the sli

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Brad Sims wrote: > Feel free to take a gander at my .screenrc at: > http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Scripts/Screenrc.html > > Let me know if anything isn't entirely clear to ya. I wrote this > for plain people like me Hi Brad, in the keybindings section, there's a statement like this: bindke

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 3:51 pm, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > In gnome-terminal, I use CTRL-PGUP and CTRL-PGDN to cycle between tabs. > > How can I get screen to accept keyboard shortcuts for these two cycling > functions? Hrm I am not sure of the keybindings for your need but the .screenrc commands

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:53 am, Will Trillich wrote: > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > picky. > > inquiring minds want to know. :) Well I got tired of .screenrcs found via google being so poorly

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I get screen to accept keyboard shortcuts for these two cycling > functions? You can use "bind" and "bindkey" for screen. > And back on xterms - does anyone know something that doesn't have the > redraw problems of gnome-terminal, yet is

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 06:38, Thomas Adam wrote: > If the OP were to be more specific as > to the *kind* of things he wants to do with screen, then I can draft > together some of my own notes. I do have a question: In gnome-terminal, I use CTRL-PGUP and CTRL-PGDN to cycle between tabs. How can I

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That wasn't very nice of you Adam. You may have notices that Will The name's Thomas. Adam is my surname. :) > As long as your in a bad mood, did you notice that Will had the Well the problem there is that with e-mail being ambiguous, you read it ent

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Thomas Adam([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > > picky. > > There's a _plethora_ of information abou

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 06:00PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases > > or settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... > > we're not picky. > > There's a _plethora_ of information about this a

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
Have you looked at "split mode" ? In my .screenrc I have this: bind b eval "split" "resize -13" "select 19" "redisplay" "focus" "select 0" "redisplay" "redisplay" That creates a new window at the top of my screen and puts screen 19 in it then puts screen 0 in the bottom. You can do a "ctrl

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > picky. There's a _plethora_ of information about this already -- search the net. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Wee

tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:34PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > I've started using screen recently. It's way cool. same here. kahuna powerful for us command-line folks. > The best part about screen is that you can set it up such that > each xterm is just a new window showing the existing list of > she