Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Nope. Screen doesn't handle shifting terminal types,
I don't get that. The screen server is a virtual terminal, which tells its
clients it is of type 'screen', and the screen client translates that to
whatever terminal you're using.
I can connect to my screen server on my laptop from a PuTTY (on Windows), a
linux console, an xterm, and a Konsole at the same time, and at least the
console and the xterm have different terminal types (linux, xterm).
> and even if it did it
> wouldn't help much as most programs only check the terminal type at
> startup.
How do terminal types change at runtime using screen? If you run e.g. mutt
inside screen, mutt gets TERM=screen, which won't change since mutt will
stay connected to the screen server and will never see the screen client(s)
directly (which of course output to different terminal types).
Gabriel.
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