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GNU 'Screen' clears some or all of the output history displayed in the terminal when attach to the screen
I use autossh and also screen on my Ubuntu server, because of the poor internet connection I have, I use both to keep my connection alive even when my internet connection is lost... But I experienced ...
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How do I end screen -x?
I am using screen -x to monitor the process of a rsync.
Now I am scared I will end the rsync process in the terminal.
Is it safe to end screen -x with CTRL-C or CTRL-D?
Thank you
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Change session name in screen
I am running multiple programs with different values for some variables in "screen". I want to change the name of the screen-sessions so I can identify them with "screen -ls" to ...
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Console text editor and Ctrl+S within screen
I cannot use any console based text editors because my Ctrl+S is blocked by console output control -- Ctrl+S normally means stop scrolling under console or terminal, and my screen is eating that key, ...
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How to use tmux between local laptop and remote server
I am currently in a VPN using RStudio which is installed on my local desktop to do some analysis.
However, to do analysis, I extract data from my database which is installed on a remote server.
What I ...
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Execute a command on screen termination
I have been using screen for a while, but the process I am running seems to terminate at times, closing the screen out. So I have to reopen the screen again.
I was wondering if it was possible to ...
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Load terminal from another window into current split pane in tmux
In GNU Screen, I can switch to any window number within a given split. For example:
Enter screen to launch it.
Press Ctrl + a c to create a new window. Now there are two windows: window 0 and window ...
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Starting a command in a new screen session doesn't work
I want to execute a command in a new screen session (and detach from it) but I don't get it to work. I tried to start a process in a new screen session and detach from it with this:
screen -d -m ...
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Terminal escape sequences in GNU Screen
So I'm quite confused with the concept of escape sequences in a terminal (or terminal emulator to be more precise) and how they relate to the screen bindkey command. I was looking at some sample ....
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How to cancel a Ctrl-A in screen
Sometimes when I'm using my screen session I prematurely type Ctrl-A and then decide I want to remain in the current window and type something in the terminal, but anything I type next will be ...
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How to display images in hterm + screen
I am using the SSH extension on CrOS to connect to another machine. I would like to use the hterm-show-file script to display images directly in the terminal. This works fine in a normal shell, but ...
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Why does Ctrl-C terminates screen when ran in detached mode?
If I use Ctrl-C in a screen I ran the "normal way" using screen -S screen_name, it behaves as expected meaning it will interrupt whatever command the screen is running but won't terminate the screen ...
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How do I prevent all terminals crashing in Mac OS Sierra?
I usually have multiple terminal windows open, with most of them either ssh'ed into an Ubuntu session or running emacs.
In one of the ssh sessions, I was reattaching a screen (the screen was running ...
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GNU-Screen doesn't automatically clear the terminal after detaching
As shown in the following screenshot, after I detaching from a gnu-screen session, the screen isn't cleared, so it's messed up. I have to manually type clear.
Here's my environment:
GNU Screen ...
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How to change SYSIN and SYSOUT (curses mode) for a background process to another terminal session (screen utility)?
I currently run an background process started by a deamon process. It has no terminal and works fine as it doesn't have any screen i/o. It is started via a shell script which I can change. The shell ...
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Move a program started in GNU screen out to another terminal
I want to terminate an instance of GNU screen whilst preserving the process running inside it.
So I opened my regular terminal emulator program and executed screen. Then I used that instance of ...
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Why is GNU screen interfering with Vim's Ctrl-Pageup to switch tabs?
I normally use Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown to switch tabs in Vim. But when running Vim inside GNU screen, they don't switch tabs and instead have the effect of switching case.
I am running the ...
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iTerm2 -> ssh -> gnu screen -> split window: scroll wheel not working
I'm using Mac OS X as a workstation. With iTerm2, I connect to a remote host (Ubuntu Server) using this command:
ssh -t user@host screen -D -R -R
But I can't get the scroll wheel to work correctly, ...
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'screen.linux': unknown terminal type
When I run clear I get:
'screen.linux': unknown terminal type
I get this error message when, on a Debian 7 machine running the OpenVZ kernel, from within a screen session, I vzctl enter into a ...
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Scrolling with trackpad/mouse in screen on OS X Terminal
I use screen command on Terminal on OS X.
When I want to scroll up I change the mode to Copy Mode by pressing Ctrl A Esc. Then I use my trackpad to scroll up/down.
It works.
However, sometimes (...
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Resize terminal Emacs window to fit when resuming a Screen session from larger display in Ubuntu
Whenever I start a GNU screen session running GNU emacs (nw, so in terminal) on my desktop with a large monitor, then resume it on my laptop, emacs still thinks it's on a large monitor. This means as ...
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How do you cd to the directory of another screen window?
gnome-terminal has a great feature where opening a new tab or window starts the new shell with cwd = the cwd of the previously-focussed window.
I usually run GNU screen in one of my gnome-terminal ...
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Play GNU screen terminal sessions and slow them down
I have some log files made with GNU screen which I would like to watch.
These use elinks and vim, it is not simple bash text.
If I use cat, it almost works save that it is too fast. Is there a way to ...
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preventing vim from destroying screen's scrollback buffer
when not using gnu screen, vim exits without littering my scroll back buffer. It vanishes, and all i get is a new bash prompt. everything that was on the screen before starting vim is there.
when its ...
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How can I ring the audio bell within a bash script running under gnu screen?
In a konsole terminal window outside of screen running a bash shell with TERM set to konsole-256color if I type:
echo -n $'\a'
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echo -n $'\eg'
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./ringbell.sh
where contents of ringbell.sh is
#!/...
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How to give each virtual terminal in GNU Screen it's own background color?
I have a dream: I want each virtual terminal within GNU Screen to have it's own unique background color.
I think I can fake it in an .bashrc script that emits xterm control codes to set background ...
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Launch screen terminals with set directory
How can I get my screen session to open different terminals in different directories on login?
For example,
In my .screenrc file I have the following:
screen -t bash0
screen -t bash1
screen -t bash2
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Detaching from a GNU Screen suddenly clears the terminal
I feel so stupid for asking this, but here goes:
I updated my Ubuntu (Server) install today from 13.10 to 14.04. Before the upgrade detaching from screen did not clear the terminal and now it does. ...
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Local echo using Screen to connect to a serial terminal
Reading through the book "Building Wireless Sensor Networks" I learned that you can use the Screen utility to attach to a serial console. I tried using it to connect to an XBee module and it seemed ...
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Remove vertical split bar of a termincal multiplexer, vacating the space instead of hiding it
For the last decade I usually work in a full-screen mode terminal emulator (often xterm), and often with vertical split. The recent GNU Screen offers vertical split with ctrl-a |.
1280×720 offers 160 ...
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Echo to screen session and to file
I want to execute the following command:
echo $RANDOM 2>&1 >> test.txt
in this screen session:
screen -S test -X eval 'stuff "echo $RANDOM 2>&1 >> test.txt\015"'
However,...
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How do I supress date/time display in GNU Screen vertical splits?
I am using a copy of GNU Screen packaged for Fedora 18.
I copied these neat lines over onto my .screenrc, to show me the host/date-time/windows:
# Neat status bar on the bottom of the screen
caption ...
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Attach screen on a running terminal
I have a long running process in a (virtual) terminal that unfortunately was not started in a (gnu) screen session.
Is there a way to migrate it in a screen session? (obviously, without stopping it)
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Locking a GNU-screen session after x minutes of non-use on Linux
I have a couple of services running in a GNU-screen session on top of Bash. Because one of the services contain sensitive data I have to constantly either close the terminal completely or lock the ...
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Setting GNU Screen to send escape codes to outer terminal on TI
I’m using GNU Screen inside mintty. To get the scroll wheel to work, I had to switch the mintty scroll wheel mode with an escape code (^[[?7787h). This has the effect that the scroll wheel does not ...
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Emacs and Unix Screen
I'm in Screen and have one window set to emacs. When I leave that window and maneuver to a different one, say screen two or three, the text in the original emacs window gets discombobulated. The line ...
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putting "screen" in ~/.profile does nothing
I want to always use "screen" in any terminal.
i've added into my ~/.profile a new line: "screen",
just like it said here: http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3908651/Make-GNU-Screen-...
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Use of screen on terminal is blocked by length of user name
I am a user of screen on terminal, but i tried to mount a screen on my Macbook and results in this warning:
$ screen
LoginName too long - sorry.
I read on web and the suggestion is change the ...
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How to actually type CTRL-A in a linux terminal?
How do I to invoke Ctrl-a in a Linux terminal session. I am trying to share a screen using screen.
The command to turn on multiuser is Ctrl-A :multiuser on , I know how to press Ctrl+a on my ...
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PuTTY + Ubuntu 12.10: why do I have no colors unless I use screen?
I am accessing a new Ubuntu 12.10 installation via PuTTY. I am attempting to get my shell to display in color. Color works fine in interactive applications like vim, but I want to get color in e.g. my ...
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Horizontally split-screen with two programs?
I have two programs A and B. I want a single command, which will run Program A and Program B in two different terminals but in the same tab, i.e, in a horizontally split terminal. I know screen can do ...
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Screen divider / border width and color
In GNU screen, using a horizontal / vertical split, how do you set the color and width of the divider between the splits? I want to make them thin and darker so they don't stand out as much.
There is ...
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Can I remove the ctrl-z key binding in my shell?
The background for this question: I currently have to do a lot of my work in terminal over ssh, and I use screen quite a bit. Because I found the ctrl-a key binding for screen commands so annoying ...
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How do I send SIGKILL on cygwin in GNU Screen?
I have recently started using GNU screen on cygwin, but the functionality to terminate a foreground process with CTRL-C does not seem to work when there is an active screen session. Is there a ...
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Run a shell script in an existing terminal session
I'm writing a script to deploy a project to multiple servers (9 and counting). With compression, copying, and remote connections, the script is rapidly becoming fairly slow. So now I'm investigating ...
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Configure GNU Screen's colors?
GNU Screen gives my bash prompt nice colors, though the dark blue is hard to read on a black background. I can change the ls colors using /etc/DIR_COLORS but the bash prompt in screen doesn't get ...
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Load RVM environment in Screen and ZSH
This topic has been driving me nuts for a while now, and I'd like to be able to figure out what's going wrong. I use zsh with screen in my terminal, and have been for a while. However, for whatever ...
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How to reconnect a screen session every time terminal is fired?
I wrote this command to reconnect an active screen session when Terminator is opened. It works find but there has got to be a better way to to it
This is goes in the Terminator config file (note ...
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Using fg with screen
I have a running job in a ssh terminal on an external server. I can pause it with CTRL + Z and resume it with fg. But I would like to pause it, run screen screen -S my_job and get it back in front ...
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Detach screen in screen?
I like to have a screen session set up with two windows side by side (Ctrl+A | key combo). The issue is that sometimes I need to run a server that starts a screen session in the foreground of one of ...
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