Comments on: Screen - Manages multiple sessions on one terminal

By: TWCrap

TWCrap — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:39:22 +0000

Screen is indeed an nice program, but does somebody knows how can continue with your screen session after an reboot?

By: Peter Kelly

Peter Kelly — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:07:22 +0000

Certainly a useful tool, especially if your connection is likely to drop as you can reconnect to your sessions. Only thing that annoys me is putty doesn’t play nice with it in terms of the screen buffer, but ctrl-a-[ mostly solves that issue.

By: Mary Riley

Mary Riley — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:20:06 +0000

I absolutely love Screen! I use it on a daily basis, and it makes the CLI much more friendly.

By: Karl O. Pinc

Karl O. Pinc — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:03:57 +0000

To use screen with emacs you must redefine the screen control key. (You could instead reconfigure emacs and rewire your nervous system to the new key sequences, but that’d be silly.)

For instructions on using screen with emacs see:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnuScreen

By: Caitlyn Martin

Caitlyn Martin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:34:44 +0000

Screen is a vital tool for the systems administrator. The author barely mentions the most powerful and important aspect of screen: I can be connected to any number of servers, start a task, detatch from the task, and the task keeps running. I can reattach later and see the results or the progress and intervene of needed. I can attach and detatch as often as I like. So long as I use the same login (same username) I can reattach from a different location as well, i.e.: start a job at the office and pick it up at home.

I can’t believe the author used telnet as an example in this day and age. Don’t people understand that telnet passes the username and password in clear text? It’s an archaic security nightmare that should have been replaced by ssh everywhere years ago. I am amazed it still lingers on.

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:45:56 +0000

I had the necessary packages. I’m guessing some older configs I had were interfering, I got it working by deleting ~/.screen-profiles and ~/.screenrc

By: steve123

steve123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:21:38 +0000

@Henry please read my commend above yours it tells you how to download screen-profiles and how to install them

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:57:38 +0000

I’m a daily screen user.

I don’t get the status bars at the bottom or the F9 menu. How can I enable them?

By: steve123

steve123 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:23:36 +0000

if anyone needs them you can get them here:

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/screen-profiles/screen-profiles_1.48-1_all.deb

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/screen-profiles/screen-profiles-extras_1.48-1_all.deb

and to install them both:

sudo dpkg -i screen-profiles_1.48-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i screen-profiles-extras_1.48-1_all.deb

By: steve123

steve123 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:47:53 +0000

apt-get can’t find screen-profiles or screen-profiles-extras i’m i missing something here?

i’m on ubuntu server 8.10