polishlinux.org — In this article I will describe a very useful program: GNU Screen. Usually this program is used by people who have a shell account on a Unix server. But it can be also helpful to people who haven?t yet started to use a terminal or even Linux/Unix at all.
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corkyagainJul 13, 2007
Not really news (screen's been around since, I dunno, the 1990's?), but digging anyway because screen IS cool.
vagarachJul 14, 2007
It's also great for using things like matlab from a terminal! Edit the script in one screen, execute in another. Works well when you can't use the gui version.
noclueJul 14, 2007
Would you care to support your theory? Is it that you don't understand it? Or perhaps you're just a warmonger with no life but to completely s**te on everything good and happy in this world. If you actually have supporting evidence, please enlighten us.
regeyaJul 14, 2007
The real beauty of screen is that it's also cross platform, which means it likely runs on whatever platform you use, pfdogs. Unless you're a major lamer and are still running BeOS, MacOS 8.6, or some other dead operating system.
regeyaJul 14, 2007
The real beauty of screen is that it's also cross platform, which means it likely runs on whatever platform you use, pfdogs. Unless you're a major lamer and are still running BeOS, MacOS 8.6, or some other dead operating system.
chaydJul 15, 2007
Wow, after using unix/linux for over 10 years, I've never bothered to look into this using this app, amazingly useful!How many other underused/unexplored apps are there out there? That's the thing though, when you do a linux install(if it's slackware - for instance, all these apps go flashing by when you're installing. Nothing at all if you're installingfrom a GUI installer like Fedora. And yet, despite hours, days or even weeks of programming by their authors, theygo unused. I propose and app of the day advocacy campaign :)
nekoAug 10, 2007
I use screen for running the Folding@Home clients in the background... where I can still get to them if I want.I used to run my ol' UT2003 server under screen.I've also used it to run CenterICQ, for some fun chatbot and automagical sms shenanigans.And let's not forget those times when you're on a really dodgy connection, for disconnect-insurance.
Closed AccountJan 16, 2008
Very useful in combination with irssi on a shell account provider that allows irc.<a class="user" href="http://jaguar.garofil.be">http://jaguar.garofil.be</a> is a free one that allows it.