On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Onno Benschop <[email protected]> wrote: > I have no particular preference on the issue, but I would like to throw > the following into the ring. > > * At one point I recall a discussion about making screen > automatically start when connecting to a server. Is that still the > case? Will that affect the outcome of this discussion?
That's configurable with the screen-profiles-helper. If you bring up the helper with F9, and go to the menu, there's a toggle to "launch screen by default" or not. I have a Main Inclusion request filed for screen-profiles. Once it's in main, I'd like to have "screen" depend on screen-profiles, and I'd like to have the screen package add "source /usr/share/screen-profiles/profiles/ubuntu" to the end of /etc/screenrc. And using select-screen-profile, you could switch it back to the plain, non-customized one. I think this would be a really neat, flashy addition to the Ubuntu server. > * Would it be useful to make the default the same as screen has, > seeing that it's using screen, but make it configurable - system > wide, using dpkg-reconfigure. It could be smart enough to notice > that emacs is already installed - who uses that ;-) - and alert > the administrator. > * Are we talking about installing this by default - seeing that > emacs doesn't appear to be installed by default. Hmm, I must admit, I'm being swayed toward putting the default escape sequence back to ctrl-a, and making sure that that's easy to change with the helper. Let's get some more opinions and votes. :-Dustin -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
