"screen" causes problems for non-screen tty's

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:24:57PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Linux i686 2.6.10-gentoo-r6

Well there may be a bug in their version of
screen/mv/vim/terminfo/ncurses or in how one of those is built.  I have
no problem with 2.6.10-1-k7 on Debian Sarge.

>   The following are all in real textmode.  I logged in as "waltdnes" on
> tty1.  {ALT-F4} to tty4 where I logged in as "user2" and started screen.
> {ALT-F1} takes me back to tty1.  Try running vim or mc on tty1.  That's
> where I run into problems.

Well I have no problem doing that here.  It certainly can work, if built
right using non buggy versions.

Lennart Sorensen
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