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perl -e 'use Expect; $cmd = Expect->spawn("screen -dr"); $cmd->raw_pty(1); $cmd->send("q"); $cmd->expect(10,"\$");
$cmd->hard_close()'

--- /usr/bin/btlaunchmanycurses   2005-01-21 19:09:15.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/btlaunchmanycurses   2005-02-21 08:31:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     import curses
     import curses.panel
     from curses.wrapper import wrapper as curses_wrapper
-    from signal import signal, SIGWINCH
+    from signal import signal, SIGWINCH, SIGTERM, SIGHUP
 except:
     print 'Textmode GUI initialization failed, cannot proceed.'
     print
@@ -92,9 +92,12 @@
         self.messages = []
         self.scroll_pos = 0
         self.scroll_time = 0
+        self.shutdown = False
         
         self.scrwin = scrwin
         signal(SIGWINCH, self.winch_handler)
+        signal(SIGTERM, self.term_handler)
+        signal(SIGHUP, self.term_handler)
         self.changeflag = Event()
         self._remake_window()
 
@@ -106,6 +109,9 @@
         self._remake_window()
         self._display_messages()
 
+    def term_handler(self,signum,stackframe):
+        self.shutdown = True
+
     def _remake_window(self):
         self.scrh, self.scrw = self.scrwin.getmaxyx()
         self.scrpan = curses.panel.new_panel(self.scrwin)
@@ -248,7 +254,7 @@
         curses.panel.update_panels()
         curses.doupdate()
 
-        return inchar in (ord('q'),ord('Q'))
+        return inchar in (ord('q'),ord('Q')) or self.shutdown
 
     def message(self, s):
         self.messages.append(strftime('%x %X - ',localtime(time()))+s)