Comments on: Screen power tips: .screenrc

By: Julio Leiva

Julio Leiva — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:55:40 +0000

Hi guys

I’m using screen for many tasks on my system
It is working ok in all my systems,but suddenly in one box screen begins acting up.
I’m able to create the screen and go back and forth from it.
The problem comes when I want to terminate the screen using the ‘exit’ command inside of the screen, it hangs for ever.If I use CRTL+A,K no problem.
That way of closing the screen works all over the place except there.I’ve checked for differences but I can’t see any….
Any help is really appreciate.
Thanks

By: bala

bala — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:31:46 +0000

can you how to bind ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab keystrokes to move to other screens??

By: enki

enki — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:10:24 +0000

One other solution is to use M-a (alt-a) in emacs, since it essentially does the same thing.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:29:46 +0000

Thanks for your tips.

How can to ctrl-a ctrl-a with Ctrl-b as an escape key? The answer seems not ctrl-b ctrl-a.

By: proson

proson — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:18:28 +0000

thanks for your tips. I don’t Unix much these days. since I am not a developer but it’s great to hear tips and tricks or Unix or linux machine.

By: Matthew McEachen

Matthew McEachen — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:34:45 +0000

Multiplexed screen is the bees’ knees!

N clients can connect to the same instance of screen by using the “-x” option. One glitch is that the users *login* needs to be to the shared account, due to /dev/tty permission issues. Simply sudo’ing to the shared account won’t work. A simple solution is to have the users copy their ssh public key into the shared account’s ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, then everyone can ssh sharedaccount@remotehost.

So, once you’ve got that all set up, N people can be typing simultaneously (preferably one at a time) into the same shell. It’s great for pair programming, mentoring, or dangerous system administration stuff where another set of eyes can help reduce the chance of catastrophe.

By: Arne Vogel

Arne Vogel — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:00:22 +0000

“The Konsole or any other Linux terminal will give you multiple panes for different sessions, so I wonder why is screen desirable?”

And this is no use when ssh’ing into a server, unless you want to open one session for every window where you otherwise could just [CTRL-A n] to open a new shell almost instantly.

Neither does Konsole offer any protection against loss of connection. When my ssh dies while I’m using screen on the server (for example if the client machine enters standby and the connection times out), all that happens is that the screen session is detached. I open another ssh, switch to super-user (I don’t allow sshd to open root shells) and type “screen -rr” and all my VIMs and manpages are right there again.

@Keniki: Do you have any signal to contribute or just noise?

By: crimanysakes

crimanysakes — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:44:06 +0000

Probably the best reason for using screen is If you are working at, well, work, and want to go home and work, and you are using terminals and ssh, it’s really easy to just pick up where you left off.

Can’t really do that with konsole, unless you are vnc’ing; which unless you are doing graphical development would be a major bandwidth hog.

By: Alok

Alok — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:13:31 +0000

The Konsole or any other Linux terminal will give you multiple panes for different sessions, so I wonder why is screen desirable?

By: DJtoo

DJtoo — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:41:04 +0000

“screen -list” will also show current sessions ^_^