Thanks Trent! Yes, I agree most of my crashes/freezes are fat-fingering....
Will try ^Q or ^A^Q  next time...


On Feb 13, 2008 6:43 PM, Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 06:21:46PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote:
> > I am slowly being convinced that my screen crashes (or freezes
> > mainly) are due to my environment settings. This can include env or
> > stty settings.  For the people whose screen does not crash what
> > special settings are you using? What version of screen? What os?
>
> I believe my screens do not freeze.  I use screen on IA32, AMD64 and
> PPC hardware with anything from 64MB to 2GB of RAM.  The publicly
> accessible parts of my profile are accessible here:
>
>    http://cyber.com.au/~twb/Preferences
>
> In particular note .profile has
>
>    test -t 0 && stty -ixon         # disable ^S scroll lock
>
> by far the most common cause of "freezes" on Screen is people
> accidentally locking the screen.  In this case, ^Q or ^A^Q will unlock
> it.  Note also that I tell screen to use login shells by default, so
> that .profile will be read in screen windows as well as the
> controlling xterm/urxvt:
>
>    shell -$SHELL                   # login shells by default
>
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