OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20962/Stayin_Alive_with_GNU_Screen Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:44:32 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Don't forget the nethack option http://www.osnews.com/thread?348330 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348330 My favorite option From the man page


nethack on|off

Changes the kind of error messages used by screen. When you are familiar with the game "nethack", you may enjoy the nethack-style
messages which will often blur the facts a little, but are much funnier to read. Anyway, standard messages often tend to be unclear as
well.
This option is only available if screen was compiled with the NETHACK flag defined. The default setting is then determined by the
presence of the environment variable $NETHACKOPTIONS.
 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments RE: Don't forget the nethack option http://www.osnews.com/thread?348340 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348340 Can you give an example? Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (theosib) Comments Agreed http://www.osnews.com/thread?348343 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348343 I agree with this article, screen is a godsend especially when dealing with remote systems. The copy/paste feature alone is worth it on local consoles as well, though they didn't cover that in the article. It can also be used very effectively as a serial terminal, if you ever need a quick and dirty serial connection to a headless box. Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments Comment by BSDfan http://www.osnews.com/thread?348344 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348344 http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments <3 screen http://www.osnews.com/thread?348345 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348345 Screen is one of my all time favorite *nix programs. ever.

I love it. It is unbelievably useful, specially when having to deal with remote systems. Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments RE[2]: Don't forget the nethack option http://www.osnews.com/thread?348346 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348346 examples:

Regular message => nethack message

"Copy mode aborted"=>"You escaped the dungeon."

"Filter removed."=>"You have a sad feeling for a moment..."

"Window %d (%s) killed."=>"You destroy poor window %d (%s)."

"Detach aborted."=>"The blast of disintegration whizzes by you!"

"Aborted because of window size change."=>"KAABLAMM!!! You triggered a land mine!"

"There are several screens on:"=>
"Prove thyself worthy or perish:" Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments RE: Comment by BSDfan http://www.osnews.com/thread?348382 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348382 Yeah, tmux is a cool alternative since 0.7. Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (skypher) Comments Comment by Calipso http://www.osnews.com/thread?348433 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348433 screen is an awesome program. Use it on a daily basis and work would be a lot more messy if I had to open separate terminals instead of just running screen. Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Calipso) Comments Awesome http://www.osnews.com/thread?348504 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348504 I always wanted something like this, once tried screen, but had to little patience to read the manual. So I got stuck. This article revived that idea and now I'm screen's fan. Especially split window mode and copy/paste. Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dr-ROX) Comments RE: Comment by BSDfan http://www.osnews.com/thread?348551 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348551 Hell yes. I much prefer tmux over GNU Screen -- for its licensing, its interface, its client/server architecture, its stability, and its lightweight design. GNU Screen has a few features that tmux lacks, but those features may as well not exist, considering the way I use a terminal multiplexer.

http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Screen_vs_tmux Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (apotheon) Comments RE: Comment by BSDfan http://www.osnews.com/thread?348569 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348569
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux


The nicest thing I like about tmux compared to screen, is that out-of-the-box, the keybindings don't mess up CLI navigation. ie CTRL+A still means "beginning of line" and not "enter command mode". Once less thing to configure on all the servers.

Now, if only someone would port it to Debian. ;) Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (phoenix) Comments RE[2]: Comment by BSDfan http://www.osnews.com/thread?348618 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348618 Compile it yourself? it should work on Linux.. BSD.. any Unix worth using.

For debian specifically, google relieved this:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tmux

It's outdated though, just compile it yourself. Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments High Performance Computing http://www.osnews.com/thread?348632 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348632 It is a lovely program to use, especially if you run a big job on a cluster. I was talking to a geologist about best practices running programs on a Linux cluster and when I told him about screen and how it works he immediately got on the phone and was telling his friend about it. Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ShadesFox) Comments RE[3]: Don't forget the nethack option http://www.osnews.com/thread?349375 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349375 funny Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (backdoc) Comments RE: Comment by BSDfan http://www.osnews.com/thread?349376 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349376 macbook-pro:~ backdoc$ tmux
-bash: tmux: command not found Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (backdoc) Comments RE: Awesome http://www.osnews.com/thread?349378 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349378 Pick 3 or 4 things to use. It can be overwhelming to try to learn everything. Here's my favorites:

While in screen:
Ctrl+c (create new session)
Ctrl+A (rename session)
Ctrl+" (show list of current sessions)
Ctrl+a,Ctrl+a (switch between current session and last one)

From the shell:
screen -ls (show current screen processes)
screen -dr (detach then reattach to "process")

If you just get used to using these, they will pay dividends. I'll bet that there are more that I would love, if I knew them. But, I just stick with a few favs and they work for me. If you use the command line (which you should), you'll be amazed how these few commands will increase your productivity and satisfaction.

Good luck. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (backdoc) Comments