Re: screen getting stuck on startup

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Mandar Mitra <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm facing the following strange problem with screen.
>
> My .xinitrc / .xsession has the following line:
>
> (/usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x46+1440-0 -T 2.1 -n 2.1 -e screen -m &)
>
> *Sometimes*, when I log in to an X session, the xterm started above
> is blank, with only a "[" (black fg, red bg) in the first position (upper
> left-hand corner). In this condition, no commands seem to work.

When in this state, can you run 'screen -ls' from another terminal,
and see if it lists an existing session (as
'Dead'/'Detached'/'Attached')? I am thinking maybe xterm starts screen
before it has the specified geometry, and doesn't send screen a
size-changed signal, or it does send the signal but screen ignores it.
Could you try the version from git and see if you continue to see this
problem?

Sadrul