Comments on: Screen: Tips & Tricks

By: attila

attila — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:05:02 +0000

yes, C-a | (pipe)

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:59:01 +0000

od lat pracuję z AIX, dzisiaj zacząłem szukać więcej informacji na temat ’screen’ do mojego bloga - jak będę gotowy to mój post będzie miał link do twojej strony.

Gratuluje bardzo udanej strony (ja nic nie wiem na temat WEB:-()

Pozdrowienia z Philadelphi, USA

MarkD:-)

By: pjman

pjman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:30:37 +0000

I had a similar problem. You have to make sure “hardstatus string” and everything after is on the same line.

By: zig

zig — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:48:04 +0000

I tried to install the status line at the bottom of the screen using the “hardstatus” commands, but the status line is solid gray. How do I change the colors so I can see the status line text? Using Debian.

By: bigmomma

bigmomma — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:13:19 +0000

Figured it out myself..
If you have the same question, here is the answer:

To get the divider bars, do NOT use the vertical split patch which can be found here: http://fungi.yuggoth.org/vsp4s/

But instead use the CVS snapshot of the current development version of screen. Here is the link:
http://fungi.yuggoth.org/debian/

By: bigmomma

bigmomma — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:44:32 +0000

How did you get the vertical white bars that divide the different screen windows?

By: SimpleSimon

SimpleSimon — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:38:58 +0000

I’ve tried having screen start automatically at login, but it ends up creating a whole bunch of screens.

What is the proper way to configure my system to have screen start automatically (and reconnect to any pre-existing sessions if there are any running) ???

By: Eduardo Costa Lisboa

Eduardo Costa Lisboa — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:01:05 +0000

Now it’s about time to talk about copy & paste:

To enter Copy mode:

C-a [
or
C-a Esc
or even
C-a C-[

Then you can use the direction arrows, as well as pg up/down to navigate accross the pages of a screen. To begin selecting a text, press space, and then go to the end of your selection. Then, press space again.

You will see something like:

Copied 6 characters into buffer.

Now, try changing your window and press:

C-a ]

You will be pasting your buffer directly to the standard input of your other window. Pay attention, as it is very important: Paste pastes into your standard input, not standard output. Thus, it is like you have really typed what you have pasted.

Instead, if you want to paste it to a file, say, a log, or something, just do like this:

C-a >

Screen will create a file under /tmp with a name like screen-exchange containing exactly what you have copied into the buffer.

While yet in Copy mode, you can use it just to search for a pattern. It’s like less and vi:

/pattern

searches for a pattern from the point you are to the end of the page, while:

?pattern

searches backwards for a pattern.