software.newsforge.com — Recently I needed to do some distance education; one of my coworkers wanted me to show him how to do software builds on Linux. The only problem was that I'm on the East Coast and he is on the West. How could I show him the build and install process? After considering some alternatives, we found our solution in GNU Screen.
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stableAug 23, 2006
Digg just because I use screen for exactly the same purpose too. It's also an amazing tool to monitor long processes in the console that I can detach at work and reattach at home to watch progress.
geronimoAug 23, 2006
Nice, but I wasn't able to actually go to each subwindow for some reason after the split.
geronimoAug 23, 2006
wow and I thought I knew everything about screen, I had no idea it did split screen and multiuser. Split screen alone has increased my productivity, thanks.
martinusAug 23, 2006
It does not touch 80% of what screen can do, but 80% of what I use screen for. Sorry if you dont like that. Just mod it down.
dremspiderAug 23, 2006
I created a nifty tutorial a while back on Screen. It is posted on google's cache now as I had some issues with my web domain name. <a class="user" href="http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:ifZYPxf8s_0J:linux.iingen.unam.mx/pub/Linux/misc/screen/screen.pdf+screen+daniel+lohin&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1">http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:ifZYPxf8s_0J:linux.iingen.unam.mx/pub/Linux/misc/screen/screen.pdf+screen+daniel+lohin&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1</a>
stripesAug 23, 2006
@ BrainInAJar: "it took him this long to discover screen? "Hey, there is a lot to it. You won't beleve the number of people who want a terminal program (like a tip or cu replacment), and already use screen......but don't know that screen can talk directly to a tty device just like cu and tip!There are also a lot of folks that don't know that screen can display more then one pty to you at once (C-a S). There is a lotta stuff in screen. I have it remove the :ti:te termcap capabilities from the terminal since I don't like vi and the like using it anyway.
hockeyrinkAug 23, 2006
Screen becomes soooo much more usable after you append the following to your screenrc file (or .screenrc, depending on distro). Adds a convenient F11/F12 for right/left jumping of screens, with a convenient bottom status bar:----------cut below-----------# Bind F11 and F12 (NOT F1 and F2) to previous and next screen windowbindkey -k F1 prevbindkey -k F2 next# Pretty status bar at the bottom.hardstatus alwayslastlinehardstatus string "%{gk}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{wk}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %m/%d %{W}%c %{g}]"--------cut above----------------------
greyfadeAug 23, 2006
fancy.
pdiddleAug 24, 2006
Obviously the article writer has never heard of the "watch" command :z