Re: all apps in my screen lost across X reboot

[Kevin Van Workum]

Ping,

I'm not a vim user, so I don't know what that code is supposed to do or how to use it. Can you provide the step by steps to reproduce the issue. You should be able to use the copy/paste feature of your window manager or X11. For me, I can highlight text with the mouse and then paste it with the middle mouse button.

Kevin

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:46 PM, ping <address@hidden> wrote:

hi kevin:
I tried that and it looks good, in terms that my apps inside screen now get retained across X reboot...but then I find another issue that make it hard to use this approach in practice:
it looks now I can't copy$paste between vim and other apps, or even between vim instances I was running inside screen...
previously I can at least achieve that with following vim config:

if match($TERM, "screen")!=-1
  set term=xterm
  let g:GNU_Screen_used = 1
else
  let g:GNU_Screen_used = 0
endif


function! InScreen(command)
  return g:GNU_Screen_used ? 'screen '.a:command : a:command
endfunction

I double maybe this related to the fact that, with this approach now screen (and all its child) is not a child of X, so it has problem to access the X selections or clipboards...
any idea?

regards
ping

On 07/07/2011 03:21 PM, ping wrote:

hi Kevin:
thanks and that sounds exactly what my issue was.
I'll try start screen from outside of X and see if it is ok.

regards
ping

On 07/07/2011 09:37 AM, Kevin Van Workum wrote:

Ping,

If you start screen from an X session,  then screen is a child of X. So when X dies, so does screen. To do what you want, you would have to start screen outside of X. 

There are many ways to do this. For example, you could start a screen session at boot time from rc.local. Or you could just switch to a different tty (e.g. ctrl-alt-F2) and start a new screen session there. Then go back to X (ctrl-alt-F7) and reattach to that screen session.

Kevin

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, ping <address@hidden> wrote:

guys:
I use screen for years and I'm happy with it.
one thing annoyed me a lot is everytime when i need to reload X (it's not stable), and when I come back and find everything in my screen (vim, news, mutt, telnet, ssh,...everything) also went away, the session/windows are there though. searching the internet I haven't got much useful info.
people are saying they use screen to get persistent sessions across X...how can i archive that?

thanks!

regards
ping

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