Re: [screen-devel] [bug #39389] "screen -r" should optionally pick up X11 DISPLAY variable from environment

[Timothy Normand Miller]

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 <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> schrieb:

URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39389&gt;



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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