Re: screen with svgalib, etc.?

[bmathis-screen]

I'm no expert on this, but a pty is a "pseudo tty", that is, a fake one, 
and is what is used by pretty much anything that gives you a shell over 
a network.  A real tty is directly attached via hardware to the 
computer.  svgalib no doubt requires the ability to access direct 
hardware or somesuch to draw graphics on a tty, and only then a VGA one 
(serial terminal won't work).  There's no way that screen could handle 
that situation.  At that point you want remote X Windows.

Maybe NoMachine NX will better suit your purpose.


address@hidden wrote:
> A lot of programs seem to have issues with the pts/*
> terminals (/dev/pts/* ?) used by screen. One such would be
> svgalib. Unfortunately, I've never really figured this
> terminal screen stuff out.
>
> Pointers?
>
> - -- grok.
>