From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDPdx-0003aQ-Jh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:52:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j88GmRcf003200; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:48:27 GMT Received: from gw-oko.i4u.sk (gw-oko.i4u.sk [212.89.237.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j88GkGsn009079 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:46:16 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by gw-oko.i4u.sk with local; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:50:10 +0200 id 007E7B5B.43206BC2.0000082B Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:50:10 +0200 From: ivan To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess Message-ID: <20050908165010.GD14257@larva.oko> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050829155303.4420371b@snowdrop.home> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 046dae67-1bd0-4742-8567-e59c29698b1e X-Archives-Hash: 25536afd8f2785c82df54e9a40cf9efb > | That'd also solve the cases where a terminal changes right beneath a > | running application. That > | happens during attaching a screen session. > > No it doesn't. Screen provides a virtual terminal with lots and lots of > capabilities. It then reduces them itself internally to what it thinks > the underlying term supports -- again, this is done via terminfo, so if > you're running screen on xterm you're running a crippled screen. So, screen advertises the same capabilities to the starting apps regardless the terminal the screen is being run on? Or it advertises reduced capabilities according the terminal it's currently attached to? As for the former, I don't think that would work. If an app chooses a multi color style cuz screen is able to handle it, but then screen tries to reduce it to mono. And for the later, it'd work much better if terminal could pump its capabilities to the app at runtime, that is during reattachment. Would it be that hard to extend window resize or something? Ivan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list