According to the vtprint man page, it uses terminal escape sequences to
activate the printer. When screen is running, it inserts a layer in
between the program and your terminal program, which is what allows
screen to perform its magic, and will also catch those sequences and
prevent vtprint from functioning. This is expected behavior according
to how screen works.
You probably get the "successful" message because vtprint cannot know if
paper actually came out of the printer, so it's really just guessing.
Henry Nelson wrote:
I use PuTTY to login to a shell account for reading/sending mail.
>From the shell without running Screen, I can print from Mutt
using "vtprint" (prints out on printer attached to local terminal).
When I evoke Mutt from a Screen session, nothing is sent to the
printer, even though I get a message on the display that vtprint
successfully printed a page. Is there something I've overlooked
that would have Screen send the printer output to the terminal?
TIA
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