Dear Maintainer,

I have a program which runs in one window of my screen, monitoring certain parameters.
When those parameters reach certain values, it executes a command in another program, running in
another window of the same screen.

So if the windows are 1 and 2, then the program in screen 1 will execute a command
screen -p 2 -X stuff "some commands". Program in window 2 receives those commands as if
they came from the keyboard. Very nice.

This worked for several years, no problems.

However, recently (days ago), this started failing: now whenever I run screen -p (number),
I get an error saying "could not find pre-select window".

Note: I have only one screen process running. This does not seem to be about the command being
sent to the wrong screen session.

Restarting screen did not bring any change.

Hi Matija,

I cannot reproduce this bug.

Tested with 5.0.1-3:
screen -p 2 -X stuff "some commands"

"some commands" appears in window 2.

If you're still able to reproduce this bug, please provide:
1. output of: dpkg -l screen
2. output of: screen -ls
3. output of: screen -Q windows "%n %t"
4. if this is being invoked in a script - if the script creates the
target window first
5. whether the command is run from inside screen or outside, and whether
STY is set

Cheers,
Peter Dey

tags 1138176 + unreproducible
thanks

No response received.  Closing as unreproducible.
Test written and included in 5.0.2-1.