Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Screen

Timestamp:

12/08/09 14:23:10 (14 years ago)

Author:

Josh Smift

Comment:

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Screen

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+'screen' is a terminal multiplexer, which lets you run multiple virtual terminal screen-windows in a single window-manager-window (e.g. an X11 xterm or a Mac Terminal window). You can also put your screen session into multiple window-manager-windows, disconnect from them, and reconnect to them later, e.g. on a remote server you can run a screen session, disconnect, log out, log back in from somewhere else, and reconnect, with no disruption whatsoever to the terminals within your session.
+
+= .screenrc =
+
+Your .screenrc file configures how screen works. Settings that JBS likes:
+
+{{{
+escape ^\^\ 
+hardstatus off 
+hardstatus string '[BBN screen %n%? (%t%?)] %h' 
+startup_message off 
+term vt100 
+vbell off 
+bind \\ 
+bind ^h prev 
+}}}
+
+The first in particular is very handy, substituting Ctrl-\ as the screen escape character, which is helpful if you like to use Emacs (or any other program that uses Ctrl-A to do something useful). Check the man page for more info about the others, or ask JBS.
+
+= Using screen as a serial terminal =
+
+Aside from the usual awesome things you can do with screen, you can also use it as a serial terminal, like 'tip' or 'cua'.
+
+To start up a screen session that way, on Ubuntu, do
+{{{
+screen /dev/ttyS0
+}}}
+(or replace /dev/ttyS0 with whatever your serial terminal device is, if you're not running Ubuntu).
+
+To open a new serial terminal window in an existing screen session, do
+{{{
+Ctrl-\ : screen /dev/ttyS0
+}}}
+(assuming you've set Ctrl-\ as your escape character; and that /dev/ttyS0 is your serial device).