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#1100699 [G|MS| ] [screen] screen: hardcopy and screen-exchange are insecure by default
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:51:01 UTC; Severity: grave; Tags: moreinfo, security, trixie-ignore; Found in versions screen/4.9.0-4, screen/4.9.1-1; Filed 307 days ago; Modified 220 days ago;

#1003257 [i|+| ] [screen] screen: memory corruption when $TERM's total termcap length exceeds buffer => segfault or malloc SIGABRT
Reported by: наб <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 01:57:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: patch; Found in versions screen/4.8.0-6, screen/4.9.1-1, screen/4.9.0-4; Filed 4 years and 12 days ago; Modified 1 year and 123 days ago;

#468427 [i|R|=] [screen] screen: ncurses applications not drawn inside screen until terminal is resized
Reported by: Chih-Han Chen <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:54:01 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: unreproducible; Merged with 502490; Found in versions screen/4.0.3-11, screen/4.0.3-7, screen/4.0.3-9; Filed 17 years and 328 days ago; Modified 13 years and 335 days ago;
#648511 [i| | ] [screen] screen: fails to install
Reported by: mike stopka <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:21:02 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 14 years and 71 days ago; Modified 14 years and 70 days ago;
#684929 [i| | ] [screen] Screen corruption when switching windows on Linux console
Reported by: Jeremiah Stoddard <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:09:01 UTC; Severity: important; Found in versions screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-6, screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-5, screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7; Filed 13 years and 159 days ago; Modified 13 years and 100 days ago;
#726567 [i| | ] [screen] base: same pty allocated to multiple processes
Reported by: Kris Coward <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:06:01 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7; Filed 12 years and 97 days ago; Modified 12 years and 35 days ago;
#1072232 [i| |♙] [src:screen] screen: use wtmpdb to write wtmp entries
Reported by: Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 18:48:01 UTC; Severity: important; Fix blocked by 1072237: libutempter: integrate with wtmpdb; Filed 1 year and 233 days ago; Modified 1 year and 62 days ago;
#1117241 [i| | ] [screen] screen: crash of the master process due to memory corruption after resizing the terminal window
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2025 10:55:01 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version screen/4.9.1-3; Filed 105 days ago; Modified 91 days ago;
#1123944 [i| | ] [screen] screen: display corruption due to U+3164 HANGUL FILLER
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:43:02 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version screen/4.9.1-3; Filed 25 days ago; Modified 20 days ago;

#1068635 [n|+u| ] [src:screen] screen FTCBFS: pty.c:338:7: error: implicit declaration of function ‘openpty’; did you mean ‘OpenPTY’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
Reported by: Helmut Grohne <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 09:39:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch, upstream; Found in version screen/4.9.1-1; Filed 1 year and 285 days ago; Modified 1 year and 285 days ago;
#1078603 [n|+u| ] [screen] screen: crashes after passing through a zmodem transfer
Reported by: xmcp <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch, upstream; Found in version screen/4.9.0-4; Filed 1 year and 158 days ago; Modified 1 year and 158 days ago;

#210975 [n|u| ] [screen] screen as default shell causes problems with rsync, unison, etc
Reported by: Martin Pool <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 02:18:10 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in versions screen/4.2.1-3, 3.9.15-1, 4.0.2-2; Filed 22 years and 131 days ago; Modified 10 years and 238 days ago;
#273816 [n|u| ] [screen] screen blocks the output in copy/scrollback mode, leading to denial of service
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in versions screen/4.5.0-3, screen/4.0.3-14, 4.0.2-3; Filed 21 years and 117 days ago; Modified 8 years and 325 days ago;
#409398 [n|u| ] [screen] Starting screen with 'screen -dm' gives a reduced TERMCAP
Reported by: "Richard Lewis" <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:48:06 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in versions screen/4.0.2-4.1, 4.0.2-4.1sarge1, screen/4.4.0-4; Filed 18 years and 355 days ago; Modified 1 year and 63 days ago;
#575088 [n|u| ] [screen] screen -dm -c alternate-screenrc should report errors if something goes wrong
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:15:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 15 years and 305 days ago; Modified 14 years and 105 days ago;

#242510 [n| | ] [screen] screen: spins when pasting
Reported by: Allan Wind <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 02:33:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in versions screen/4.6.2-3+deb10u1, 4.0.2-3, screen/4.8.0-6; Filed 21 years and 291 days ago; Modified 4 years and 131 days ago;
#310448 [n| | ] [screen] Konsole termcapinfo fix causes failure to correctly line wrap when connecting via PuTTY.
Reported by: David Wilson <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 4.0.2-4.1; Filed 20 years and 245 days ago; Modified 9 years and 107 days ago;
#428305 [n| | ] [screen] all running screens froze, clients fail to attach
Reported by: Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:45:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.0.3-0.3; Filed 18 years and 227 days ago; Modified 16 years and 215 days ago;
#440066 [n| | ] [screen] screen: man page says -wipe checks hostname, but it does not
Reported by: Daniel Jacobowitz <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:09:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.0.3-3; Filed 18 years and 147 days ago; Modified 18 years and 125 days ago;
#496180 [n| | ] [screen] screen: hardstatus causes trouble after window resize
Reported by: Christoph Biedl <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:24:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.0.3-11; Filed 17 years and 152 days ago; Modified 16 years and 178 days ago;
#496971 [n| |=] [screen] screen: resize notification
Reported by: Baurzhan Ismagulov <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:06:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 525830; Found in versions screen/4.0.3-0.3, screen/4.0.3-13; Filed 17 years and 146 days ago; Modified 5 years and 132 days ago;
#502360 [n| | ] [screen] Race conditions with 'screen -X cmd' and 'screen cmd' cause logging to file to fail
Reported by: Jorgen Grahn <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:33:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.0.3-0.3; Filed 17 years and 98 days ago; Modified 17 years and 98 days ago;
#549272 [n| | ] [screen] screen -r with a name beginning with numbers doesn't work.
Reported by: Paul Bone <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 23:33:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.0.3-11+lenny1; Filed 16 years and 112 days ago; Modified 16 years and 112 days ago;
#557092 [n| | ] [screen] screen: verticality
Reported by: vituko <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:57:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.0.3-11+lenny1; Filed 16 years and 64 days ago; Modified 15 years and 38 days ago;
#563715 [n| | ] [screen] screen 'no screen to be resumed' after, if the distant PC crashes
Reported by: yellowprotoss <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 16 years and 18 days ago; Modified 16 years and 12 days ago;
#575057 [n| | ] [screen] screen -x occasionally hangs when attaching
Reported by: Robert Henney <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:27:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.0.3-11+lenny1; Filed 15 years and 305 days ago; Modified 15 years and 305 days ago;
#609985 [n| | ] [screen] screen: Incorrect formatting of IPv6 entries in utmp
Reported by: Paul LeoNerd Evans <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:24:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: ipv6; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 15 years and 8 days ago; Modified 15 years and 8 days ago;
#619581 [n| | ] [screen] Debian's screenrc screws up backscrolling
Reported by: Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:33:08 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 4.0.3; Filed 14 years and 303 days ago; Modified 14 years and 303 days ago;
#622265 [n| | ] [screen] TERM=screen.mlterm breaks dircolors
Reported by: Jonny <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:27:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in versions screen/4.0.3-14, screen/4.3.1-1; Filed 14 years and 286 days ago; Modified 10 years and 147 days ago;
#626526 [n| | ] [screen] screen fails to run commands in multiuser session
Reported by: anatoly <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:39:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.0.3-11+lenny1; Filed 14 years and 255 days ago; Modified 12 years and 351 days ago;
#645202 [n| | ] [screen] how to freeze screen in four simple steps
Reported by: Ferenc Wagner <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:15:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 14 years and 101 days ago; Modified 14 years and 101 days ago;
#702827 [n| | ] [screen] screen: Cursor not repositioned properly after launching altscreen application and resizing the terminal
Reported by: Eric Pruitt <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:24:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7; Filed 12 years and 315 days ago; Modified 12 years and 314 days ago;
#706617 [n|u| ] [screen] screen: No error thrown when hardcopydir is not available
Reported by: Paul Menzel <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 14:15:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: upstream; Found in version screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7; Filed 12 years and 264 days ago; Modified 12 years and 264 days ago;
#707308 [n| | ] [screen] screen's terminfo file does not provide erase_chars
Reported by: Paul LeoNerd Evans <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 23:24:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7; Filed 12 years and 257 days ago; Modified 12 years and 257 days ago;
#713919 [n| | ] [screen] screen: Window exit hangs when fd 0~2 are open in a backgrounded process
Reported by: "Daniel N." <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7; Filed 12 years and 211 days ago; Modified 12 years and 211 days ago;
#715146 [n| | ] [screen] screen: immediately terminates
Reported by: Matijs van Zuijlen <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 09:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7; Filed 12 years and 199 days ago; Modified 12 years and 77 days ago;
#923051 [n|🌐| ] [screen] screen doesn't clear the screen for certain UTF8 characters
Reported by: "Bruce Momjian,,," <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 17:12:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: l10n; Found in version screen/4.5.0-6; Filed 6 years and 331 days ago; Modified 6 years and 31 days ago;
#929418 [n| | ] [screen] screen: /run/screen isn't created
Reported by: Phil Dibowitz <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 03:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.6.2-3; Filed 6 years and 242 days ago; Modified 4 years and 177 days ago;
#972840 [n| | ] [screen] screen manpage documents "caption top", but it isn't supported
Reported by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 19:51:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.8.0-2; Filed 5 years and 87 days ago; Modified 5 years and 87 days ago;
#991503 [n| | ] [screen] screen outputs spaces when refreshing/attaching a window with "defbce on"
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 02:00:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.8.0-6; Filed 4 years and 177 days ago; Modified 4 years and 177 days ago;
#1039503 [n|u| ] [screen] wrongly splits up extended grapheme clusters (like certain emoji)
Reported by: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:27:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: upstream; Found in version screen/4.9.0-4; Filed 2 years and 207 days ago; Modified 2 years and 205 days ago;
#1076380 [n| | ] [screen] screen: hangs for ~10 seconds when creating tab with zsh+unlimit
Reported by: Linus Lüssing <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:18:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.9.1-1; Filed 1 year and 187 days ago; Modified 259 days ago;
#1085889 [n| | ] [screen] screen: Utmp slot not found -> not removed
Reported by: Celelibi <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.9.1-1; Filed 1 year and 87 days ago; Modified 1 year and 87 days ago;
#1099122 [n| | ] [screen] screen: What? Cannot remove Utmp slot?
Reported by: Francesco Potortì <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:06:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version screen/4.9.1-1; Filed 324 days ago; Modified 324 days ago;

#385737 [n|M| ] [screen] screen: Screen not properly redrawn when viewing Devanagari script in mutt
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 17:18:18 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version screen/4.0.2-4.1; Filed 19 years and 143 days ago; Modified 9 years and 50 days ago;
#640765 [n|M| ] [screen] screen: -U even with UTF-8 locale results in garbled ncurses apps
Reported by: Daniel Dickinson <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 03:00:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 14 years and 137 days ago; Modified 9 years and 16 days ago;
#691632 [n|M| ] [screen] screenrc not working with ~
Reported by: Ubuntu6226 <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:21:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 13 years and 86 days ago; Modified 13 years and 85 days ago;
#797017 [n|M| ] [screen] screen: terminfo hack in /etc/screenrc confuses terminfo's upstream (was: terminfo status line for screen-s)
Reported by: Carsten Hey <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:51:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 10 years and 147 days ago; Modified 10 years and 142 days ago;
#886813 [n|M+R| ] [screen] screen: GNU screen wipes X selection (copy buffer / clipboard) on init with TERM=xterm-256color
Reported by: Walter Doekes <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:15:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo, patch, unreproducible; Found in version screen/4.5.0-6; Filed 8 years and 10 days ago; Modified 7 years and 189 days ago;

#202342 [m|+| ] [screen] screen: terminals which utilize \E]n;...\a xterm escape sequence not recognized (Eterm/kterm)
Reported by: Tim Pope <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:48:05 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch; Found in version 3.9.15-1; Filed 22 years and 186 days ago; Modified 22 years and 186 days ago;

#484655 [m| | ] [screen] timestamp given by "screen -ls" is not always the same
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:57:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: confirmed; Found in version screen/4.0.3-10; Filed 17 years and 231 days ago; Modified 14 years and 109 days ago;
#600649 [m|u| ] [screen] screen: resize says "resize # lines" even if the window is split vertically
Reported by: Axel Beckert <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:15:11 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in versions screen/4.0.3-14, screen/4.6.2-1; Filed 15 years and 95 days ago; Modified 8 years and 54 days ago;
#611228 [m| | ] [screen] screen(1) contains duplicate sentence "Permission is checked for initiator..."
Reported by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:15:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: confirmed; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 14 years and 360 days ago; Modified 14 years and 101 days ago;
#665662 [m|u| ] [screen] screen: Add C-a c to help screen
Reported by: Alois Mahdal <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:15:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 13 years and 302 days ago; Modified 13 years and 302 days ago;

#351844 [m|u| ] [screen] any command line options should override .screenrc
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:48:34 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: upstream; Found in version screen/4.0.2-4.1; Filed 19 years and 349 days ago; Modified 19 years and 349 days ago;
#524304 [m| | ] [screen] screen in screen results in corrupted display for ncurses apps like vim
Reported by: "Daniel Dickinson $System Administrator$" <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:48:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version screen/4.0.3-11; Filed 16 years and 281 days ago; Modified 16 years and 281 days ago;
#545182 [m| | ] [screen] Remove the /var/run-cleanup part from /etc/init.d/screen-cleanup
Reported by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:54:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 16 years and 139 days ago; Modified 14 years and 101 days ago;
#677203 [m| | ] [screen] screen fights with mutt over term title?
Reported by: Andrei POPESCU <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:49:37 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-2; Filed 13 years and 223 days ago; Modified 13 years and 223 days ago;
#689079 [m| | ] [screen] screen: Documentation about "focus" without subcommand no more uptodate
Reported by: Eric Pruitt <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:12:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-5; Filed 13 years and 114 days ago; Modified 13 years and 114 days ago;
#694178 [m| | ] [screen] screen: Automatic setting of $TERM not consistently documented
Reported by: Kurt Roeckx <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:33:04 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7; Filed 13 years and 58 days ago; Modified 10 years and 140 days ago;
#818058 [m| | ] [screen] Serial interface doesn't support 38400 baud
Reported by: Guido Günther <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 08:12:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version screen/4.3.1-2; Filed 9 years and 313 days ago; Modified 8 years and 220 days ago;
#923073 [m|u| ] [screen] screen: chdir does not do tilde substitution
Reported by: Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 20:30:05 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: upstream; Found in version screen/4.6.2-3; Filed 6 years and 330 days ago; Modified 5 years and 1 day ago;
#1061448 [m| | ] [screen] "screen -ls" shows incorrect timestamps
Reported by: Sergio Durigan Junior <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:42:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version screen/4.9.1-1; Filed 1 year and 360 days ago; Modified 1 year and 360 days ago;

#317450 [m|u☹|☺] [screen] key indications on license screen are confusing
Reported by: Nahuel Greco <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:33:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: upstream, wontfix; Found in versions 4.0.2-4.1, screen/4.0.3-11; Fixed in version screen/4.0.3-0.3; Filed 20 years and 199 days ago; Modified 14 years and 109 days ago;
#439628 [m|+u☹| ] [screen] screen: convert program source code to UTF-8 encoding
Reported by: Ben Finney <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:12:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch, upstream, wontfix; Found in version screen/4.0.3-3; Filed 18 years and 150 days ago; Modified 9 years and 157 days ago;
#869551 [m|u☹| ] [screen] screen: does not work at all if the current user has the user name "none"
Reported by: Oscar <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 07:18:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: confirmed, upstream, wontfix; Found in versions screen/4.6.1-1, screen/4.5.1-4, screen/4.5.0-6; Filed 8 years and 180 days ago; Modified 6 years and 362 days ago;

#387397 [w|+| ] [screen] screen should support digraphs for RFC1345 two-character mnemonics
Reported by: Ben Finney <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version screen/4.0.2-4.1; Filed 19 years and 131 days ago; Modified 9 years and 157 days ago;
#407490 [w|+| ] [screen] screen: Screen in login mode is not unicode-ready
Reported by: Vincas Ciziunas <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version screen/4.0.3-0.2; Filed 19 years and 4 days ago; Modified 19 years and 4 days ago;

#866907 [w|H| ] [screen] screen: Please backport true color support from master branch
Reported by: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 18:12:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: confirmed, help; Found in version screen/4.6.0-1; Filed 8 years and 202 days ago; Modified 2 years and 115 days ago;
#1082656 [w| | ] [screen] screen: New upstream version 5.0.0 available
Reported by: Michael Prokop <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:57:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: confirmed; Found in version screen/4.9.1-1; Filed 1 year and 116 days ago; Modified 1 year and 115 days ago;

#37475 [w| | ] [screen] screen: Feature Request: exclude windows from 'next', more-letter commands defineable
Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:03:19 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 3.7.4-6; Filed 26 years and 259 days ago; Modified 22 years and 313 days ago;
#170811 [w|u| ] [screen] screen: minwin for configuration file
Reported by: "Andrew Ferrier" <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:18:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: upstream; Found in version 3.9.13-2; Filed 23 years and 59 days ago; Modified 13 years and 336 days ago;
#240049 [w|u| ] [screen] screen: kill and quit should allow signal selection
Reported by: Charles Fry <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:03:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: upstream; Found in version 4.0.2-3; Filed 21 years and 304 days ago; Modified 13 years and 336 days ago;
#319783 [w|u| ] [screen] screen.1.gz: mention the ALT key
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:33:07 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: upstream; Found in version screen/4.0.2-4.1; Filed 20 years and 183 days ago; Modified 20 years and 183 days ago;
#388855 [w| | ] [screen] screen: Alt-Tab-with-cursor-keys-like-feature to let you see each screen in turn until you find the one you want
Reported by: "Jason Spiro" <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version screen/4.0.2-4.1; Filed 19 years and 122 days ago; Modified 3 years and 128 days ago;
#388857 [w| | ] [screen] Exposé-like-feature to let you see all screens at once and pick the one you want with the arrow keys
Reported by: "Jason Spiro" <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:03:13 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version screen/4.0.2-4.1; Filed 19 years and 122 days ago; Modified 19 years and 122 days ago;
#400111 [w| | ] [screen] Please ship a nice featureful status line enabled by default in the default /etc/screenrc
Reported by: "Jason Spiro" <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:48:30 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 19 years and 60 days ago; Modified 19 years and 60 days ago;
#400113 [w| | ] [screen] please save more lines of scrollback by default
Reported by: "Jason Spiro" <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version screen/4.0.3-0.2; Filed 19 years and 60 days ago; Modified 19 years and 60 days ago;
#400834 [w| | ] [screen] screen: please add an RSI break reminder feature that locks your screen periodically
Reported by: "Jason Spiro" <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:03:18 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version screen/4.0.3-0.2; Filed 19 years and 55 days ago; Modified 19 years and 55 days ago;
#479311 [w|u| ] [screen] screen: Add separate option for reverse wrapping
Reported by: <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 08:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: upstream; Found in version screen/4.0.3-0.3; Filed 17 years and 263 days ago; Modified 17 years and 234 days ago;
#548845 [w|Uu| ] [screen] screen: Please support displaying caption on the top
Reported by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:09:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: fixed-upstream, upstream; Found in versions screen/4.0.3-11, screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 16 years and 115 days ago; Modified 4 years and 30 days ago;
#566016 [w| | ] [screen] screen: cool upper taskbar, for information, multimedia and news
Reported by: yellow <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:33:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version screen/4.0.3-11+lenny1; Filed 16 years and 2 days ago; Modified 16 years and 1 day ago;
#695745 [w|🌐| ] [screen] Debian screenrc doesn't have defutf8 on by default
Reported by: Michael Bravo <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:45:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: l10n; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 13 years and 40 days ago; Modified 12 years and 190 days ago;
#711886 [w| | ] [screen] screen: support for FQDN in hardstatus string
Reported by: Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:15:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7; Filed 12 years and 225 days ago; Modified 12 years and 190 days ago;
#779233 [w|u| ] [screen] Per-window chdir
Reported by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:51:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: upstream; Found in version screen/4.2.1-3; Filed 10 years and 330 days ago; Modified 10 years and 328 days ago;
#948761 [w| | ] [screen] screen: improve examples in /etc/screenrc
Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 03:09:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version screen/4.7.0-1; Filed 6 years and 7 days ago; Modified 6 years and 7 days ago;

#83758 [w|M| ] [screen] death of main screen causes lockup
Reported by: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:33:15 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version 3.9.5-8; Filed 24 years and 362 days ago; Modified 13 years and 336 days ago;

#418520 [w|☹| ] [screen] please change package section from misc to shells
Reported by: Tomas Pospisek <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:12:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Found in version screen/4.0.3-0.3; Filed 18 years and 288 days ago; Modified 18 years and 168 days ago;
#563716 [w|☹| ] [screen] screen, very useful tool: duplicate the window (add in adjacent tab)
Reported by: yellowprotoss <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Filed 16 years and 17 days ago; Modified 14 years and 101 days ago;

#286063 [i|u|=↝] [screen] screen: paste of a large block of text causes random data lost
Reported by: WU Fengguang <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:33:06 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Merged with 524189; Found in versions 4.0.2-4.1, screen/4.0.3-11; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?35862; Filed 21 years and 37 days ago; Modified 13 years and 302 days ago;
#655589 [i|u|↝] [screen] screen: corrupt display due to the U+061C character (ARABIC LETTER MARK) or similar
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:51:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in versions screen/4.1.0~20110819git450e8f3-1, screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7, screen/4.0.3-14, screen/4.9.0-1; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?43145; Filed 14 years and 10 days ago; Modified 3 years and 238 days ago;
#666052 [i| |↝] [screen] screen: Screen randomly dies while suspending emacs (C-z)
Reported by: Julien Palard <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:39:02 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=31494; Filed 13 years and 299 days ago; Modified 13 years and 299 days ago;
#745631 [i|u|↝] [screen] screen: byobu >= 5.77 can crash screen server process
Reported by: Axel Beckert <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:00:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in versions screen/4.2.0-1, screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7, screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42178; Filed 11 years and 273 days ago; Modified 11 years and 272 days ago;
#799929 [i|U|↝] [screen] screen -r attaches to wrong session
Reported by: Roman Odaisky <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:15:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: fixed-upstream; Found in version screen/4.3.1-2; Forwarded to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?43744; Filed 10 years and 119 days ago; Modified 136 days ago;
#1000138 [i|u|↝] [screen] /usr/bin/screen: command arguments beyond 62 silently discarded
Reported by: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:21:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in version screen/4.8.0-7; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61504; Filed 4 years and 62 days ago; Modified 3 years and 350 days ago;

#215955 [n| |↝] [screen] screen: corrupts characters above U+00FF in caption
Reported by: Leonardo Boiko <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:03:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 4.0.1-3; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18505; Filed 22 years and 101 days ago; Modified 8 years and 92 days ago;
#326571 [n|u☹|↝] [screen] screen: -x infinite loop
Reported by: Brendan Hickey <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 05:33:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: upstream, wontfix; Found in version screen/4.0.2-4.1; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=14383; Filed 20 years and 141 days ago; Modified 2 years and 222 days ago;
#461958 [n|u|↝] [screen] screen: Can't press ctrl+pgup/dn to change tabs in vim
Reported by: Sam Morris <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:54:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed, upstream; Found in version screen/4.0.3-7; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24076; Filed 18 years and 2 days ago; Modified 9 years and 101 days ago;
#618332 [n| |↝] [screen] rxvt-unicode: screen contents not restored when detaching a "screen" session
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:00:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in versions screen/4.8.0-6, screen/4.9.0-4, screen/4.9.1-1; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65506; Filed 14 years and 314 days ago; Modified 1 year and 302 days ago;
#652990 [n|Uu☹|↝] [screen] screen: Binding a key to a different action sometimes still yields the default binding
Reported by: "Bruce Momjian,,," <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed, fixed-upstream, upstream, wontfix; Found in version screen/4.0.3-14; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?35287; Filed 14 years and 31 days ago; Modified 2 years and 222 days ago;
#702659 [n|+u|↝] [screen] screen: querying windows silent does not work
Reported by: Facundo Aguirre <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 16:57:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch, upstream; Found in version screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29803; Filed 12 years and 318 days ago; Modified 12 years and 190 days ago;
#859313 [n|+u|↝] [screen] screen: Reattaching a screen causes it to forget the "defflow" setting
Reported by: David Fifield <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 03:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch, upstream; Found in version screen/4.5.0-4; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48594; Filed 8 years and 293 days ago; Modified 8 years and 293 days ago;
#860922 [n|u|↝] [screen] screen: Should error out on unsupported baud rates instead of showing garbled data
Reported by: Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:21:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: upstream; Found in version screen/4.5.0-5; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50849; Filed 8 years and 274 days ago; Modified 8 years and 273 days ago;
#929880 [n|u|↝] [screen] screen: Screen consumes a huge amount of RAM when increasing the scrollback buffer to a large number
Reported by: Alex <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 11:33:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: upstream; Found in version screen/4.5.0-6; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=53934; Filed 6 years and 232 days ago; Modified 6 years and 232 days ago;

#719577 [m|u|=↝] [screen] screen: clock in status line stops working if system time has been set to an earlier time
Reported by: Axel Beckert <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:09:08 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: upstream; Merged with 783375; Found in versions screen/4.2.1-3, screen/4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7, screen/4.0.3-14; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44931; Filed 12 years and 161 days ago; Modified 10 years and 221 days ago;

#488613 [w|u|↝] [screen] Wish for two :idle handlers (:blanker *and* :lockscreen).
Reported by: "Trent W. Buck" <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: upstream; Found in version screen/4.0.3-9; Forwarded to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?23739; Filed 17 years and 206 days ago; Modified 17 years and 206 days ago;

#1097862 [S|⛺+|☺] [src:screen] screen: ftbfs with GCC-15
Reported by: Matthias Klose <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:54:51 UTC; Severity: serious; Tags: forky, ftbfs, patch, sid; Found in version screen/4.9.1-1; Fixed in version screen/4.9.1-3.1; Done: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>; Can be archived in 19 days; Filed 335 days ago; Modified 11 days ago;
#1106961 [S|+|☺] [src:screen] screen: add libcrypt-dev to Build-Depends
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 19:21:45 UTC; Severity: serious; Tags: forky, patch, sid; Found in version screen/4.9.1-3; Fixed in version screen/4.9.1-3.1; Done: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>; Can be archived in 19 days; Filed 232 days ago; Modified 11 days ago;

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- 24 Wishlist items
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- 10 Confirmed
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