window create

This command creates a new physical screen. Depending on the programs you are using, this physical screen may take one of two manifestations. A physical screen is a container of one or more windows plus an input line. When you create a new physical screen, it also creates a new window and puts that window in the new screen.

The first type of physical screen supported is under GNU Screen. The 'screen' program is a popular way to multiplex multiple programs into one login session, and have those programs continue running when you log out. If you run the client under screen, then window create will create a new screen you can switch to (via ^A-<number>).

The second type of physical screen supported is under X Window. If you are not sure if you are running X Window, but you are running with a graphical desktop called “KDE” or “GNOME”, you are using X. When you run the client under X, then window create will create a new terminal you can place on your desktop.

If you are running under both X and Screen at the same time (as you may be doing if you are using KDE on your desktop and you're using ssh to log into a remote host where you are running screen to run the client all the time), and you're using a version of the client before EPIC4-1.1.14, you should try to unset the STY or DISPLAY environment variables before you start the client or it may not be able to function properly.

Since EPIC4-1.1.14 there is a new /SET, set wserv_type which you can set to either the value SCREEN or XTERM, which controls which type of screen you want to create.

If you try to create a new XTERM screen, your client needs to be able to connect to the X server given in your DISPLAY environment variable, or window create will fail.

Before EPIC4-1.1.3, it was required that all screens be exactly the same height and width. This was pretty unfriendly and caused things to be unreliable. It's recommended you upgrade to a newer client for best results with this feature.

This command might not be available if the person who compiled the client #undef'ined WINDOW_CREATE in config.h. It is #define'd by default so this would have been a conscious decision by that person.

This operation first appeared in ircII-2.2