On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:34 PM, John Hawley <jhawley at hissingdragon.net>wrote: > Can't figure out what's up with screen on one of my machines. > > jhawley at vulpix:~$ screen -S 1 ... and I get a blank screen with "New > screen ..." at bottom for a few seconds. Screen appears to be running, but > none of the Ctrl commands work. > > If I log in as root, it works fine. This is Ubuntu 10.4. > > What might be up? "screen" is such a generic name, its hard to google for. > :/ > > I'm wondering if your tty/terminal settings are different from root's. Are root and your non-root user running the same screen? (Probably, but I'd check anyway.) Just brainstorming. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110323/0a363c71/attachment.html>