Selecting the plain profile might confuse the user when trying to change the configuration

Bug #333189 reported by Ara Pulido
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
screen-profiles (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Dustin Kirkland 

Bug Description

Binary package hint: screen-profiles

Use case:

1. Open a gnome-terminal
2. Run screen
3. The menu appears
4. Select the "plain" profile and exit the menu
5. Run screen to start the "plain profile". For the user, apparently, nothing happens, but the screen process is now attached to the terminal.
6. The user runs now screen-profiles to select ubuntu-dark
7. The help states: "Exit and run again screen to apply the new profile"
8. The user exists and runs "screen". Nothing happens, the ubuntu-dark is not applied.

BUG: The problem here is that the "screen" process is still running, so what the user is doing is running a screen process, from the already running screen process. The user needs to type "exit" first to detach from the terminal, and then run again "screen" to apply the new profile.

SOLUTION: A possible solution would be that, if the user tries to run "screen" from a screen process, instead of starting a nested screen process, a message would be print "Please, exit the current screen by typing "exit" before you try to run another screen"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: screen-profiles 1.26-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: screen-profiles
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686

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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote :
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Thanks for the report.

It should be simple to modify the text. Will fix ;-)

:-Dustin

Changed in screen-profiles:
assignee: nobody → kirkland
status: New → Triaged
Changed in screen-profiles:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package screen-profiles - 1.27-0ubuntu1

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screen-profiles (1.27-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Fix for LP: #333189:
    - keybindings/common: add profile reload shortcut, "ctrl-a ~"
    - screen-profiles: updated messages to point to ^a ~
    - po/*: updated for the new messages
  * Fix for LP: #333180
    - screen-profiles: add toggle for auto launch of welcome
    - po/*: updated for the new messages
  * Fix for LP: #332890
    - bin/updates-available: prefer /var/run/updates-available over
      ~/.screenrc-updates-available, if touched more recently

 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:59:26 -0600

Changed in screen-profiles:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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