Re: auto-lockscreen? -> idle + caveat!

* Michael Schroeder (2004-03-18 11:42 +0100)
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:32:26PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> * Michael Schroeder (2004-03-17 11:55 +0100)
>>>> at the end of october i was in Cologne showing off what screen
>>>> can do. i also showed the new "idle" command. however, "idle 100
>>>> cmatrix" will keep on spawning a new cmatrix after each 100
>>>> seconds of idle time.
>>> 
>>> You mean 'idle 100 screen cmatrix'. Anyway, I don't think it
>>> should spawn new windows, as the display is still idle. I'll
>>> check this.
>> 
>> It does. Actually Sven's solutions spawns a new window, too. But
>> just one window and it "goes away" as soon as you hit a key.
> 
> "idle 100 cmatrix" produces "unknown command 'cmatrix'".

I know. I meant his "eval 'screen..." "idle off" solution. 

>>> Anyway, you shouldn't do it that way, why didn't you use the
>>> blankerprg command?
>> 
>> Yes, that's how it's supposed to work. But have a look how the
>> "caption" line "goes up" when do it that way: 
>> 
>> http://www.thorstenkampe.de/tmp/cmatrix.jpg/view (and the normal
>> screen: http://tk.zoper.com/home/tmp/caption-normal/view
> 
> Is that caption or hardstatus?

It's the caption line. 

> Both shouldn't get displayed if the blanker is running, at least
> with screen-4.0.2.

The only thing I can add is that the caption line goes up in the same
way when I resize rxvt to the maximum and then back again to the
default under Cygwin/Windows. But cmatrix and screen are running under
Gentoo Linux.

Thorsten



 
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