Awesome. Thanks! Yeah, I can see how this might be done manually, but an automatic solution built into screen would really convenient.
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Juergen Weigert <j...@suse.de> wrote: > Ssh has an implementation for this. It requires proxying. If we have a > developer for this, I can give some coaching. > > Cheers, JW > > > > Timothy Miller <invalid.nore...@gnu.org> schrieb: >> >> URL: >> <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39389> >> >> >> Summary: "screen -r" should optionally pick up X11 DISPLAY >> variable from environment >> Project: GNU Screen >> Submitted by: theosib >> Submitted on: Tue 02 Jul 2013 01:36:01 AM GMT >> Category: Feature Request >> Severity: 3 - Normal >> Priority: 5 - Normal >> Status: None >> Privacy: Public >> Assigned to: None >> Open/Closed: Open >> Discussion Lock: Any >> Release: None >> Fixed Release: None >> Planned Release: None >> Work Required: None >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> Details: >> >> This is apparently a common problem that lots of people complain about: A >> user reconnects to an old screen session, but they can't run X11 apps, >> because >> the DISPLAY variable in the session is stale. >> >> I notice that gnu >> screen >> correctly picks up the terminal size, type, and >> attributes from the environment. So I don't see why the same can't be done >> with the X11 DISPLAY variable. (Although there perhaps should be a command >> line option for screen to do this, in case the user really wants DISPLAY to >> be >> something different.) >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> Reply to this item at: >> >> <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39389> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message sent via/by Savannah >> http://savannah.gnu.org/ >> >> >> > -- > Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail > gesendet. > -- Timothy Normand Miller, PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/ Open Graphics Project
