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 Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:46 am Post subject: [Solved] How can I enable key bindings for use in Screen??? |
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Hi, All...
I tried to launch and use app-misc/screen on one of my gentoo machines, only to discover that the default key bindings didn't work.
Would anyone have a suggestion as to how these key bindings can be enabled??
Thanks!
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:37 am Post subject: |
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check ~/.screenrc and /etc/screenrc
And of course, man screen
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:58 am Post subject: |
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| truc wrote: | check ~/.screenrc and /etc/screenrc
And of course, man screen |
Those configuration files are the same on my affected machine as on my machines in which Screen operates flawlessly with key-bindings...
Perhaps I wasn't specific, enough. On my affected machine, and while in a Screen terminal, I'm unable to use any of the commands that are prompted by "control-a". When I key-in "C-a K", my screen terminal doesn't kill, but rather, I just receive command line output of the letter "K". The same for the other "control-a" commands...
I guess, it's an issue of incorrect binding of the "'control" key with the "a" key.
Do you have any thoughts about this??
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well, what's your TERM set to outside screen?
Inside screen, if you type cat, and then ^A, does the 'cat' actually receive something?
Try screen -X escape "^Aa" inside your screen session( ^A is actually one character, you usually can have it by doing ^V^A )
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Hi truc,
if I type:
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Then the ^A key binding starts to work.
My term is set to: "vt102" outside of screen... What should the TERM be set to (and how should I set it) to get the keybindings to work by default?
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The problem was solved by commenting out the line in the .screenrc which changed the command character. 
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Thanks, truc... 
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