[Sussex] Very interesting talk on "Linux as a developer's environment"

[Fay Zee]

It was very interesting from start to finish. Thank you, Dominic.

It was nice to see a new face at the moot - welcome to Paul Willis,
from Rustington LUG, introduced by Frank James. With Alex that made
seven of us.

I took away lots of little commands, and especially enjoyed the demo
of the screen command. I'll be using the caption facility regularly
from now on.

Dominic gave Frank and me a screen command file to make coloured,
tabbed captions at the foot of the console, numbered so as to switch
easily between them.

.screenrc:
############################################
# An alternative hardstatus to display a bar at the bottom listing the
# windownames and highlighting the current windowname in blue. (This
is only
# enabled if there is no hardstatus setting for your terminal)
caption always
caption string "%{.gb}%-w%(.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %u"
hardstatus string "yourname (%n %t)"

# Turn off the splash screen
startup_message off
############################################xx

This works well on my Eee PC, which had screen installed but didn't
have a .screenrc.

However, on my main machine there is already a lengthy .screenrc, and
although I appended the new code and checked for earlier conflicting
commands, it puts an extraneous "(.rW)" before the caption. Still
works just as well. I've been practising the other screen commands.

I've yet to implement the other CLI bits and bobs.

Thanks again for the talk.

 Best Regards,
Fay
East Grinstead Linux User Group
wwweglug.org.uk


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