beep and “;stefan@chiad:~” written to the display when running screen on Fedora
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What is the issue?
After a reboot of the system chiad (which runs fedora) I noticed a problem when I started a screen session. It gave a beep/bell and displayed the following:
;stefan@chiad:~[stefan@chiad ~]$
[stefan@chiad ~]$
The second line is there because I gave an enter and it shows what has been added to the first line. And when I logged out of the screen session it should show
;screen
I also noticed this only happend when I logged in via ssh from my console system. When logging in via ssh from a xterm didn’t give any problems. Also logging into a system running CentOS (kari) I didn’t have these issues.
What to search for?
The biggest disadvantage of using screen as a terminal multiplexer is that it is hard to search for on the internet, because a lot of things are screens, but not the GNU screen program. Because searching for a beep or bell doesn’t really make sense I tried searching for "linux screen ncurses background color not filling" because I also noticed that mutt and wyrd did not fill the background color when it supposed to. This search led me to some interesting URL’s.