Selecting the plain profile might confuse the user when trying to change the configuration
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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screen-profiles (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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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
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: screen-profiles 1.26-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: screen-profiles
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686
Related branches
Changed in screen-profiles: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Thanks for the report.
It should be simple to modify the text. Will fix ;-)
:-Dustin