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RE: Starting screen non-interactively at system startup
From: |
David Balazic |
Subject: |
RE: Starting screen non-interactively at system startup |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:08:49 +0200 |
> John Davidorff Pell[SMTP:address@hidden wrote :
>
> Hi all,
>
> I posted last month [1] but received no response, so I'm posting again.
>
> Programs inside a screen window inherit different environments
> depending on whether or not they were started inside screenrc or
> interactively. In particular, the TERMCAP variable is different,
> resulting in different (undesirable) behaviour in some applications
> (emacs).
>
> I have dumped the environment before starting screen (in a script that
> does NOT inherit an interactive environment), from screenrc (still not
> within an interactive environment), and from a new window created after
> re-attaching interactively.
>
> As near as I can tell, screen is changing the TERMCAP environment
> variable based on either 1) screenrc being complete or not, or 2) the
> TERM setting upon re-attach. As I understand screen, the idea is that
> screen exports a consistent environment to its children, and then
> translates to whichever terminal type is currently attached to it, so I
> believe this behaviour to be a bug.
>
This idea changed around version 4.0. Now the idea is to present to
"children"
a terminal, that is tailored to the actual physical terminal. I am
interested myself
on the official opinion, how this should be handled when you reattach from a
different terminal type.
> Is there a work around? How can I fix this? Feedback is most
> appreciated!
>
> JP
>
>
>
> --
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RE: Starting screen non-interactively at system startup, David Balazic, 2004/09/13
RE: Starting screen non-interactively at system startup, David Balazic, 2004/09/13