[BRLTTY] Some more about SBL (Re: attribute tracking, was re: Recommended live distribution)

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Klaus Knopper on 2012/09/20 at 02:17 +0200]
> 
> >1. SBL detects the program running on the current text console by
> >reading its associated processes command name. For example, "elinks".
> 
> Am I correct that, for example, it'd always be "screen" if a user is using 
> screen-maintained sessions?

That's where the process name falls short as a generic solution.  
However I'm under the impression that SBL was targetting a set of users 
which might not be experienced enough to venture into screen (the 
terminal multiplexer command) managed sessions.  Same thing for remote 
connections over ssh.  Hence my suggestion to use screen (the actual 
display) content matching pattern.  And that is not full proof either if 
you have split wondows under screen, but at that point you have to be 
quite an experienced user and not really require application profiles.


Nicolas