Re: [screen-devel] using screen for connecting two machines via serial port

2022-05-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger via screen-devel
I have now installed mingetty and mgetty but I have no clue on how to use these programs. If I run mingetty from an X11-console it lets me enter characters but nothing else, no matter what I specify for --loginprog. If I do a mingetty /dev/tty7 I can enter a few characters on that terminal befo

Re: [screen-devel] using screen for connecting two machines via serial port

2022-05-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger via screen-devel
Sorry, if I do machine1> screen /dev/ttyS0 machine2> mgetty /dev/ttyUSB0 ... then I just get some weird ascii characters on machine1. That does not work at all. Besides this I would like to run any program over the serial line, not just a login shell which may be too powerful and/or a security r

[screen-devel] [bug #43145] Text order marks cause corrupted display

2022-05-25 Thread Axel Beckert
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #43145 (project screen): In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655589#34 the following reproducer has been posted by Vincent Lefevre: - In a 80-column xterm, execute "screen bash", then for

[screen-devel] [bug #43145] Text order marks cause corrupted display

2022-05-25 Thread Vincent Lefèvre
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #43145 (project screen): In the Debian package, if I add "{ 0x061C, 0x061C }," to the "combining" table in encoding.c, this makes the issue with this character disappear. But I don't know whether this is the right fix. ___