Showing posts with label screen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label screen. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Screen as window manager

In case that you didn't know screen is a window manager and a very useful one however for consoles ...
This is my .screenrc file

hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{=kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B}%Y-%m-%d %{W}%c %{g}]'
# Default screens
screen -t shell1 0
screen -t shell2 1
screen -t shell3 2
screen -t shell4 3

To switch between screens type CTRL+a 0 - goes on screen 0 - replace 0 with 1-3 to end up on a different window(screen)

To detach is a simple CTRL+a d - this will put screen into the background and you can reatach with
screen -r or if you have multiple sessions
screen -ls will list the screens that you have running and then
screen -r sessionName