GNU Screen - Summary
This project is part of the GNU Project.
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Each virtual terminal provides the functions of the DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g., insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets). There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows the user to move text regions between windows. When screen is called, it creates a single window with a shell in it (or the specified command) and then gets out of your way so that you can use the program as you normally would. Then, at any time, you can create new (full-screen) windows with other programs in them (including more shells), kill the current window, view a list of the active windows, turn output logging on and off, copy text between windows, view the scrollback history, switch between windows, etc. All windows run their programs completely independent of each other. Programs continue to run when their window is currently not visible and even when the whole screen session is detached from the users terminal.
The screen package comes with a reference manual in nroff and texinfo format. An excellent wiki about screen (including tutorials) is at http://aperiodic.net/screen/
An active development branch (collecting many patches and fixes) exists in https://github.com/amade/screen
Registration Date: Tue Apr 1 16:43:59 2003
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 6 - Mature
posted by jnweiger, Thu Feb 21 19:07:46 2013 - 0 replies
I just learned about this development branch. Untested. Please comment. -- https://github.com/amade/screen
posted by jnweiger, Fri May 28 12:37:45 2004 - 8 replies
The mailing list mailto:screen-users@gnu.org, archived at http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users is active again.
posted by tvon, Sun Apr 13 23:41:18 2003 - 0 replies
Thanks to all wo contributed to the workshop:
Summary: http://www.linuks.mine.nu/irc/screen/
#screen Log: http://www.linuks.mine.nu/irc/screen/screen.log.html
#screen-questions Log: http://www.linuks.mine.nu/irc/screen/screen-questions.log.html
posted by tvon, Tue Apr 1 20:34:12 2003 - 0 replies
Topic: Introduction to screen
When: Sunday 6th April 2003 18:00 GMT
Where: irc.debian.org
Info: http://www.linuks.mine.nu/irc/
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