Re: Using command line '-X' to send commands to multiuser session

[Steve Scrimpshire]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:14:52 -0500
Steve Scrimpshire <address@hidden> wrote:

> Disclaimer: I am no guru
> 
> I ran into a similar problem when trying to create a menu item in fluxbox
> executing screen through Eterm:
> 
> [exec] (Irssi) {Eterm -g 95x24+0+0 -x -0
> --scrollbar=off --buttonbar 0 --trans --cmod 70 -c white -e screen -D -R}
> 
> I tried everything to fix it. Then I did 'man screen' and discovered this:
> 
> "... the user can specify any mode 700 directory in the environment variable 
> $SCREENDIR."
> 
> So, I created a directory in my home directory for my sockets:
> /home/omar/tmp
> mode 700
> and edited my ~/.bashrc to include:
> export SCREENDIR=~/tmp

Actually, I had forgotten that something made it not work the way I suggest up 
there. I had to create a file (or maybe I edited an already existing 
one...tired...lol) in /etc/profile.d that I called screen.sh and it looked like 
this:

#!/bin/sh
# /etc/profile.d/screen.sh

if [ -z "$SCREENDIR" ]; then
    export SCREENDIR=$HOME/tmp
fi


Steve