On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:57 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Does Mandrake use screen?  How is it used?
> 
> I found a ~/.screenrc file on both my Mandrake 8.2 and 7.2 
> installations, so I assume (I know ;-) ) that both versions of Mandrake 
> use screen.

Yes.

> On the screen manpage, under bindkey, it says that if I enter:
> 
> bindkey -t foo stuff foobar 
> 
> in my ~/.screenrc file I should be able to type "foo" and get "foobar", 
> and I assumed that should work in any X application.  (For some reason, 
> I'm assuming that all the stuff that runs in X somehow runs "on top" of 
> screen.)

No. X and screen have nothing to do with each other. screen is a tool
to have multiple screens (or 'windows') on a text console (or tty) and
X is the server which serves the graphical base for graphic
applications (environments like KDE, Gnome or other window managers).

wobo
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