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Re: One happy screen user
- From: Bob Davis <bob at bobsbits dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:48:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: One happy screen user
- References: <45E7628C.9070701@users.sourceforge.net> <ksfiu2dntn46nkem86caq2nemm2b0jt87j@4ax.com>
Andrew Schulman wrote:
...........
Have you noticed the problem of processes not being killed when you kill
their windows (C-a k) or the whole screen session (C-a \)? That problem is
persistent for me, and IMO it's enough of a nuisance to keep the current
screen package from being good enough to officially release. I don't think
it's going to be hard to solve-- we just have to send a signal to the right
child processes at the right time-- and I've made some progress at digging
through the source code to find it. I hope to have a fix soon, and then
I'll be glad to offer up screen as an official Cygwin package.
Works for me using rxvt and bash. I just tested it.
screen
bc -l
scale=10000
a(1)*4
^ak
answer 'y'
and ps and procexp show bc is gone.
And thanks for screen it is awesome.
Two things I use it for:
1. When I have a long running process like downloading source code. I can start it up and create a new window to continue working.
2. I havent done this on my windows computers yet but... On linux(ubuntu) I was doing a dist upgrade from breezy to dapper and I went home and found that the computer(at work) was hanging on a question to replace a .conf file(ntpserver) and I looked for a way to answer the question remotely. Thats when I stumbled on screen in my searches. If I had started screen before I started the dist upgrade then I could have "screen -d -r" and grabbed the window to answer the question. Since I hadnt started screen I couldnt do that but I will next time. I also found if I hadnt started screen I could have used x11vnc. Once again I would have had to have this installed before the dist upgrade(locks on apt-get) but in the future. Basically it would have been on remote machine "x11vnc" on local machine "vncviewer linux350:0" and voila the whole desktop is vnc'ed. I tested this and it allows input from local and remote at the same time.
bob
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