Re: Hi

[Quasar Jarosz]

On Sun, 30 May 2004, Sami Samhuri wrote:

> * It was Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:56:49PM -0500 when Quasar Jarosz said:
> >
> > On Fri, 28 May 2004, Sami Samhuri wrote:
> >
> > > * It was Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:06:00PM +0200 when Juergen Weigert said:
> > > > On May 27, 04 09:52:55 -0700, Sami Samhuri wrote:
> > > > > Just in case anyone came across this... When you use screen it sets
> > > > > TERM to screen.linux. On my Gentoo installation TERM is just "linux" 
> > > > > on
> > > > > the virtual consoles. If I run screen in another screen I get 8 crummy
> > > > > colours instead of 16, so I do ``TERM=linux screen'' and it's all good
> > > > > again.
> > > >
> > > > screen is supposed to set its internal terminal type to 'screen'.
> > > > It is supposed to translate escape-sequences from this internal
> > > > representation to the terminal type of the real terminal it is running 
> > > > in
> > > > ('linux' in our case').
> > >
> > > This explains a few things for me. Thanks.
> > >
> > > > I don't know what 'TERM=screen.linux' is. Probably a Gentoo
> > > > hack then.  (Any Gentoo-maintainers out there?)
> > >
> > > This could be a gentoo hack I guess. I don't see anything regarding this
> > > in /etc/screenrc though. I may ask on gentoo-user or check out the
> > > screen package to see if it's mentioned anywhere.
> >
> > Well, I found this kind of odd so i checked on my Gentoo system (up to
> > date) and i don't see any of this 'TERM=screen.linux' stuff. Perhaps i'm
> > just missing it? I don't know. Also, i havn't seen any of this 8 color
> > stuff either, but i'm gonna fiddle with it a bit and see if i can
> > reproduce it.
>
> Well switch over to a virtual console, log in, type 'screen' and then
> 'echo $TERM' and see what it says. Also, set your caption to always with
> some colour in it and then inside the first screen run screen again.

ra vm # cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
ra vm # echo $TERM
screen
ra vm #

That's all i see as far as the TERM var goes.
And as for the screen wthin screen with color, i can't really paste the
colors, but they are the same.





>
> Either of these could be due to other software I have installed. Maybe it's
> my shell, though it seems unlikely. I'm using zsh, what do you all use?

I use bash. Most of the people here probly do too, but i can't speak for
them :)


-Quasar
>
> --
> Sami Samhuri
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