on 16:30 Thu 03 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) wrote: > On 3/3/2011 4:19 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 16:07 Thu 03 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) wrote: > >> On 3/3/2011 3:34 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > >>> on 13:36 Thu 03 Mar, Sean Carolan (scarolan at gmail.com) wrote: > >>>> I really like gnu screen and use it everyday but there's one thing > >>>> that is a bit inconvenient, and that's the odd line wrapping and > >>>> terminal size issues that seem to pop up. The problem crops up when I > >>> Is your local terminal type known to all remote systems (in termcap)? > >> Instead of running screen, can you run a desktop session under > >> freenx on a server > > No xlibs on our servers. > > You need _a_ machine somewhere that can host a freenx session. It > doesn't need to be the target of the ssh connections, just something > that will mostly stay powered up if you want the session to stay active > all the time. A development box or even a VM session that would work - > or a desktop machine if it stays on all the time. It doesn't even have > to run X on its own console. Frankly, given the alternative ease of automatically redefining $TERM, that strikes me as a slightly overengineered solution. Not that I'm intrinsically opposed to overengineering. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell!