<html><body>It was very interesting from start to finish. Thank you, Dominic.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />.screenrc:<br />############################################<br /># An alternative hardstatus to display a bar at the bottom listing the<br /># windownames and highlighting the current windowname in blue. (This is only<br /># enabled if there is no hardstatus setting for your terminal)<br />caption always<br />caption string "%{.gb}%-w%(.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %u"<br />hardstatus string "yourname (%n %t)"<br /><br /># Turn off the splash screen<br />startup_message off<br />############################################xx<br /><br />This works well on my Eee PC, which had screen installed but didn't have a .screenrc.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />I've yet to implement the other CLI bits and bobs.<br /><br />Thanks again for the talk.<br /><br /><br />
Best Regards,<br />Fay<br />East Grinstead Linux User Group<br />www.eglug.org.uk<br /><br /><br /></body></html>