[TriLUG] a repost about screen

Ian Kilgore ian at trilug.org
Thu Jan 20 15:09:04 EST 2005


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Jason Purdy wrote:
| I LOVE screen -- and I think it was that kuro5hin article that got me
| hooked and helped me understand it.
|
| Personally, I would never quit a session, tho
me either, was just putting that out there as the article didnt.
| ... I would just
| disconnect (either unintentionally or intentionally by hitting Ctrl-a
| Ctrl-d).  Then I can resume screen later on by doing a 'screen -rd' (if
| I am reestablishing a disconnected session) or a 'screen -x' (if I'm on
| another console and want to share the same screen session).
|

or screen -RD, to "power detach" (detaches from the other console.) =].

| The only thing I haven't figured out is how to actually do a Ctrl-a,
| which the shell usually lets you do to get at the beginning of a line.
|
^a a
| - Jason

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