gnu-screen

What is GNU Screen? dbr What is GNU Screen ? Great! Erm, a slightly more useful answer: it allows you to run multiple console applications, or commands, in one terminal. Kind of like a tabbed terminal emulator. In fact, that's exactly what it is (just not done with the regular GUI toolkits) Why is it so great? Simple, you can run a program in a screen session (Run screen and it runs your default shell, run screen myapp and it runs myapp in the session), hit ctrl + a (the screen control sequence) and then press d ( ctrl + a , d ) to detach. The program keeps running in the background, but ,

According to the docs for the Unix "screen" command , you can configure it in .screenrc to start with a bunch of default screens, each running a command that you specify. Here's my cofig: # Default screens screen -t "shell_0" 1 screen -t "autotest" 2 cd ~/project/contactdb ; autotest It will not run the autotest command. That window where I'm trying to run autotest just closes instantly when I start screen . I also tried it with just... screen -t "autotest" 2 cd ~/project/contactdb Same result. I also tried... screen -t "autotest" 2 ls Same result there too. What's the secret to getting it to

Is it possible to set the Screen Title using a shell script? I thought about something like sending the key commands ctrl + A shift - A Name enter I searched for about an hour on how to emulate keystrokes in an shell script, but didn't find the answer. You can set the screen / xterm title using the following lines: #!/bin/bash mytitle="Some title" echo -e '\033k'$mytitle'\033\\' [UPDATE] - by request I'm also including the solution proposed by @Espo below: Depending on your xterm version or your linux distribution the line above may or may not work and you can try the xterm-defaults: #!/bin

Lets say I have a currently running screen session I am interacting with through putty. I've realized that the scrollback buffer is too small and would like to increase it without starting a new screen session. Is there a way to do this? The man page explains that you can enter command line mode in a running session by typing Ctrl + A , : , then issuing the scrollback <num> command. Lee Netherton Press Ctrl-a then : and then type scrollback 10000 to get a 10000 line buffer, for example. You can also set the default number of scrollback lines by adding defscrollback 10000 to your ~/.screenrc

How do I easily copy the GNU screen scrollback buffer to a file? IE, a more powerful version of the 'hardcopy' command? In GNU screen, I can use " ctrl - a ESC " to enter the scrollback buffer. I could then mark the entire buffer and use " ctrl - a ctrl - ] " to paste it into an emacs buffer, thus saving it to a file. However, this is tedious. Is there a screen command that'll simply copy the scrollback buffer to a file, like 'hardcopy' does for the visible portion of the screen? Bill To write the entire contents of the scrollback buffer to a file, type Ctrl + A and : to get to command mode,

I learned from somewhere a detached screen can be killed by screen -X -S [session # you want to kill] kill where [session # you want to kill] can be gotten from screen -ls But this doesn't work. Anything wrong? What's the correct way? innaM "kill" will only kill one screen window. To "kill" the complete session, use quit . Example $ screen -X -S [session # you want to kill] quit For dead sessions use: $ screen -wipe Melvin Peter You can kill a detached session which is not responding within the screen session by doing the following. Type screen -list to identify the detached screen session. ~$