From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 05:53:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A4731065673 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:53:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-108.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-108.bluehost.com [69.89.22.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7B088FC1B for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:53:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 1861 invoked by uid 0); 17 Jul 2008 05:26:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 17 Jul 2008 05:26:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User:DomainKey-Status; b=izfz657DBt5rkVGzJYhAi8gaTbX3UmZ2Voj6SOJHhZKHHnReqV0kGS9gYLFndq57MCRjWUY+63Rkd24IihI+UakX9AuMZrDOsTWFADPBc0U6wUqpg7pAhR0Z/uevBLpR; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KJM0k-0005O8-1s for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:26:38 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:20:32 -0600 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:20:32 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080717052032.GB25796@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="H1spWtNR+x+ondvy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} DomainKey-Status: no signature Cc: Subject: Re: screen and curses(?) output X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:53:21 -0000 --H1spWtNR+x+ondvy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:41:21PM -0700, paul beard wrote: > I have discovered the joys of screen to manage processes between/across > logins, but I have one small problem. If I run portupgrade and a dialog is > displayed, I can't choose any of the displayed options. A tab will move > through them but a space bar or arrow key is the same as hitting OK with = no > changes. is there some setting or different termcap I should use? I've seen the same behavior with screen. Try tmux instead of screen. It doesn't have that problem in default configuration. It basically works the same as screen, for all the common, simple operations, but you create a new session with either of: tmux new tmux new-session =2E . . reattach to a detached session with either of: tmux a tmux attach-session =2E . . and the command prefix character is ^B (instead of screen's ^A). This means that the shell command character ^A (to bring you to the beginning of the command line, just as ^E brings you to the end) actually works in tmux, whereas it doesn't in GNU Screen. Also . . . I first switched to tmux because it's: small on hard drive lighter on system resources distributed under the BSD license =2E . . so if those things matter to you, you might consider the switch (aside from the obvious fact that it solves your little problem with the configuration dialogs during portupgrades). I hope that helps. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky: ". . . anyone could learn Lisp in 1 day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take 3 days." --H1spWtNR+x+ondvy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkh+1qAACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXZVgCeJqVzlfW5MDHPyrCEWJbA1K3V regAoPqLYxBfi2lsip67B4q72+6qrQmq =uRkP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H1spWtNR+x+ondvy--