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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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