Questions tagged [gnu-screen]
screen (GNU Screen) is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells). For computer monitors, see the tag /monitors.
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Regaining key for renaming in GNU screen
Running screen for several months with ~30 open windows, I am renaming windows from time to time with C-a A. But for some reason unknown to me, I can no longer do this. That is, I can say C-a " ...
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How do I show the screen session name in GNU screen status Line?
I've created a ~/.screenrc file based on another question here: autodetach on startup_message off hardstatus alwayslastline shelltitle 'bash' hardstatus string '%{gk}[%{wk}%?%-Lw%?%{=b kR}(%{W}%n*%f %...
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How to send a "keypress" to an instance of 'mpg123' started under 'cron'?
I use mpg123 to play a list of songs while I work. The host that actually runs mpg123 and plays the music is a local, headless system, but I can connect to it over SSH. I start mpg123 on this host in ...
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Automatic or manual screen session termination
I've created a screen session and ran rsync within that session: screen -S rsync_backup rsync -rvnc data/ data2 >rsync_out-4.txt 2>rsync_outErr-4.txt I used the top command for progress ...
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Nvim syntax highlighting disabled by screen command [duplicate]
When I open up neovim on my raspbian device the syntax highlighting works perfectly well. As soon as I use the screen command (to create a multi-paned setup) nvim becomes black and white. Colors ...
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screen is killed when ssh disconnects
I found several similar questions but AFICT they don't apply to my situation. Some e.g. this one for tmux and elsewhere on Ubuntu suggest it is due to using ssh.socket, but my install is not even ...
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alternative to script(1) that produces clean typescripts of terminal sessions? [duplicate]
I am trying to capture a shell session (output of compilation of C program) and the terminal shows warnings and highlights variables in color in the terminal. See attached image. And when capturing ...
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how to exit from "screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200"
Using a usb-to-serial cable I can connect to a piece of equipment successfully via screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 Is there a command once within screen that will close that and return my terminal prompt? ...
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Run command after reattaching to GNU Screen
I use GNU Screen to run programs. One of my programs sets up a custom cursor colour. When I reattach to the program via GNU Screen, the cursor does not restore to the custom colour, until I refresh ...
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How to start a screen session from entrypoint shell script, and make it persist?
I am starting a screen session in my entrypoint shell script in docker, then log the output of screen -list to a file. #!/bin/bash screen -S my_screen -dm bash -c 'cd project && npm run start'...
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screen scroolback scrolling buffer. defscrollback 10000 didn't work
I would like to increase the scrolling buffer of screen. In screen, I modified .screenrc with defscrollback 10000 to increase the scrolling buffer, but nothing has changed. What was done wrong? This ...
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Why does pasting something with angle brackets into GNU Screen not work in Alacritty?
pasting this into screen wg pubkey < ~/.ssh/wireguard.t520.private.key > ~/.ssh/wireguard.t520.public.key .. results in this: ~/.ssh/wireguard.t520.private.key > ~/.ssh/wireguard.t520.public....
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How to add delay to my terminal?
I like the experience that I get from using the terminal on a remote device where there is a visible lag between what I type and what happens on screen, because it forces me to trust the actions I'm ...
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"The rest of the line" How setup ssh client console to show all (/px aux) java process line to know the name of the java file?
I have 3 java process running on my host - i access the host by a ssh client. Some one of that process freezed and i need kill that pid process to re-start it I know the name of the file, but i dont ...
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Is it possible for GNU screen to enforce a unique session name?
The default behavior of GNU screen is to prepend the process id to a session name to allow duplicate names to exist. For example, the following will produce three sessions of the same name, unique ...
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