Ubuntu
screen package

use \005 as escape in backtick scripts

Bug #352632 reported by Dustin Kirkland 
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
screen (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
Dustin Kirkland 
screen-profiles (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: screen

I would like to be able to specify a flag to 'backtick' that would interpret the results and render any markups in a hardstatus command.

This would greatly benefit the screen-profiles project, particularly for the unique logo generated per distribution.

Currently, a different static profile must be generated at package build time for each distribution.

Ideally, I'd create a "logo" script, with a case statement, switching on the distribution shown in lsb_release (or /etc/issue), and echo'ing the colored and marked-up logo accordingly.

I'll take a crack at a patch to support this...

:-Dustin

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Just a reminder to self...

The relevant code looks to be somewhere around screen.c, MakeWinMsgEv().

:-Dustin

Changed in screen (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → kirkland
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Nevermind! With Michah's help, I found a brilliant way around this:

printf "\005{= wr} @ "

Woohoo.

:-dustin

Changed in screen (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

screen-profiles should *totally* use this. It would make maintenance considerably easier.

:-Dustin

Changed in screen-profiles (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

...should *totally* use this to dynamically render colored logo's for each of the supported distributions.

Currently, the build process runs profiles/generate against each logo in profiles/logos/*, sed'ing the logo in place of __LOGO__.

Rather, screen-profiles now has a bin/logo script, backtick'd into place, and dynamically renders the logo in the hardstatus line, as the distro is determined by one of a) ~/.screen-profiles/distro, b) lsb_release, c) /etc/issue.

:-Dustin

summary: - wishlist: add flag to backtick to interpret results for formatting
+ use \005 as escape in backtick scripts
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package screen-profiles - 1.42-0ubuntu1

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screen-profiles (1.42-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Dustin Kirkland ]
  * bin/cpu-freq: fix cpu freq for powerpc hardware, LP: #352286;
    use 2 decimals for GHz (bring this down to 1 decimal when cpus hit 10GHz)
  * debian/postinst, debian/prerm, screen: remove some maintainer hacks
    that should be cleaned up before Jaunty GA, LP: #352291
  * po/*: screen-profiles-export translation template
  * profiles/common: added 'altscreen on', which cleans the screen for
    programs that support this, such as vi and emacs, LP: #349677
  * bin/logo, profiles/common, profiles/generate: dynamically print logo
    LP: #352632
  * screen-profiles-export, screen-profiles-export.1: drop distro selection,
    no longer needed
  * added logo for Arch linux

  [ Adi Roiban ]
  * debian/install, debian/rules, po/POTFILES.python, po/POTFILES.sh,
    po/es.po, po/fr.po, po/screen-profiles.pot: LP: #347521, i18n support
    in the screen-profiles build and install

 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:31:10 -0500

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