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.)
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