How to click using PuTTY and GNU Screen

[xoder]

Put in your .screenrc file the following line

Comments

[jcholewa]

Thanks for that. I had just assumed that it was impossible to do that through cygwin+ssh+screen, but my assumption has been proven wrong. Now if I could just work out running X apps from inside these sessions, with the wishful thinking that it might work seamlessly with the whole detaching and reattaching jumbo.

[xoder]

You have to set the DISPLAY variable correctly. Check what it is before you re-enter the screen environment, and have the first thing you do once you get in is to export DISPLAY=whatever

Or at least that's how it should work in theory...