odd error when running the screen program?
Hi folks, Both shellworld, and dreamhost, use Ubuntu as the basis for their shell workspaces. Sharing that up front, as this may be tied to Ubuntu. There is a program called screen, apparently common across some Linux distributions. one can create the equal of a screen shot, screen www.website.com followed by control a -h. This creates a file called hardcopy, with numbers going up for each file. However, when I run screen www.site.com Regardless of the site I get. screen cannot accept www.site.com no such file or directory screen is terminating. Suggesting that there must be a configuration issue since Debian users I know <and who have likely built there own stuff> are not encountering the same problem. Any tips? Kare
On 2022-10-02 11:33, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
There is a program called screen, apparently common across some Linux distributions. one can create the equal of a screen shot,
The program "screen" is not used to create screen shots. If you are after a screen shot you might be wanting to use the program "screendump". -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the mouth-breathers, and | that's why we're powerful" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
| From: Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | The program "screen" is not used to create screen shots. If you are after a | screen shot you might be wanting to use the program "screendump". If you read screen(1), you will see that screen can dump its history in the way she described. It is not the same as a screendump but it has some similarity. I assume that that's why she said "equal of a screen shot". I don't actually know what the characteristics of that history are. Fedora doesn't seem to have a program called "screendump". I know how to get a bitmap screendump but Karen surely wants a text ("ASCII") dump.
Actually, in the command line, indeed screen can perform this function. Had one made less than a week ago for another goal, with users of Debian confirming the process as well. cannot speak to screenshot, in the command line especially, but as expressed I am asking for help with a task previously managed with screen. Specifically the program's ability to reach a website. On Sun, 2 Oct 2022, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 2022-10-02 11:33, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
There is a program called screen, apparently common across some Linux distributions. one can create the equal of a screen shot,
The program "screen" is not used to create screen shots. If you are after a screen shot you might be wanting to use the program "screendump".
-- Cheers!
Kevin.
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| From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Both shellworld, and dreamhost, use Ubuntu as the basis for their shell | workspaces. | Sharing that up front, as this may be tied to Ubuntu. Thanks -- good to explain the context. | There is a program called screen, apparently common across some Linux | distributions. On Fedora 36, I had to install it manually, but it was in the distro's repository: sudo dnf install screen Clearly I haven't used it much since I hadn't even installed it. (Many people have migrated to tmux. I haven't bothered because I don't use screen often -- why learn something new? So many flags, so many magic keystrokes.) | one can create the equal of a screen shot, | screen www.website.com The screen command does not take a URL as an argument. What do you want it to do with the URL? The synopsis says: screen [ -options ] [ cmd [ args ] ] Maybe you wanted: screen links www.website.com To me, this is better expressed as: screen links www.website.com
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 11:33:36AM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
Hi folks, Both shellworld, and dreamhost, use Ubuntu as the basis for their shell workspaces. Sharing that up front, as this may be tied to Ubuntu. There is a program called screen, apparently common across some Linux distributions. one can create the equal of a screen shot, screen www.website.com followed by control a -h. This creates a file called hardcopy, with numbers going up for each file. However, when I run screen www.site.com Regardless of the site I get. screen cannot accept www.site.com no such file or directory screen is terminating. Suggesting that there must be a configuration issue since Debian users I know <and who have likely built there own stuff> are not encountering the same problem. Any tips?
screen is a terminal multiplexor, not a web browser. You can run screen with an argument of what program to run. A website is not a program so you would have to run it with some browser as an argument. As suggested links could work. -- Len Sorensen
..talk about not enough coffee. Indeed, I left off the browser in this example. For the record, now that the issue is firmly solved, it should indeed be screen links www.website.com with the control a followed by just the letter h starting the screenshot like capture. Did this in my dreamhost workspace, and it turned out fine. Thanks all, Karen On Sun, 2 Oct 2022, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 11:33:36AM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
Hi folks, Both shellworld, and dreamhost, use Ubuntu as the basis for their shell workspaces. Sharing that up front, as this may be tied to Ubuntu. There is a program called screen, apparently common across some Linux distributions. one can create the equal of a screen shot, screen www.website.com followed by control a -h. This creates a file called hardcopy, with numbers going up for each file. However, when I run screen www.site.com Regardless of the site I get. screen cannot accept www.site.com no such file or directory screen is terminating. Suggesting that there must be a configuration issue since Debian users I know <and who have likely built there own stuff> are not encountering the same problem. Any tips?
screen is a terminal multiplexor, not a web browser. You can run screen with an argument of what program to run. A website is not a program so you would have to run it with some browser as an argument. As suggested links could work.
-- Len Sorensen
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Lennart Sorensen