Screen for Linux
Friday, October 24. 2008
I use a lot of apps from the command-line, partly because command-line stuff is the same on every system, and partly because I struggle to use a mouse for RSI reasons. Unsurprisingly, the best keyboard-navigable apps are ones that only use the keyboard in the first place! One app that I can't live without is screen which allows me to have one ssh connection with multiple windows in it. What's even better is that I can detach and reattach it - so if I've got a complicated set of screens open on a server, or even if I'm just using IRC over a dodgy connection, I can run it in screen and go back and re-attach when I need to.
I use a custom .screenrc file, which adds numbered labels so show which screens I have open, so I see something like this at the bottom of my screen (click on it to make it normal size, the thumbnail is somehow tiny):
My .screenrc file looks like this:
termcapinfo xterm 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007'
termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@
shelltitle '$ |bash'
termcapinfo rxvt 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007'
termcapinfo rxvt ti@:te@
hardstatus on
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string "%{wk}%H%{Bk}|%{Mk}%?%-Lw%?%{km}[%n*%f %t]%?(%u)%?%{mk}%?%+Lw%? %=%{Bk}"
Don't ask me what any of it does, I got it from someone else and just copy it around machines all the time! The tabs create themselves when you create a new screen (ctrl + a, c) and then you can edit the labels with ctrl + a, A. What else can you do with .screenrc? I must confess I've never really looked
I use a custom .screenrc file, which adds numbered labels so show which screens I have open, so I see something like this at the bottom of my screen (click on it to make it normal size, the thumbnail is somehow tiny):
My .screenrc file looks like this:
termcapinfo xterm 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007'
termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@
shelltitle '$ |bash'
termcapinfo rxvt 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007'
termcapinfo rxvt ti@:te@
hardstatus on
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string "%{wk}%H%{Bk}|%{Mk}%?%-Lw%?%{km}[%n*%f %t]%?(%u)%?%{mk}%?%+Lw%? %=%{Bk}"
Don't ask me what any of it does, I got it from someone else and just copy it around machines all the time! The tabs create themselves when you create a new screen (ctrl + a, c) and then you can edit the labels with ctrl + a, A. What else can you do with .screenrc? I must confess I've never really looked
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Ah, just discovered my old one.
hardstatus alwayslastline "%{=}%{g}[ %{W}H %{g}][= %{w}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}n*%f %t?(u)%?%{r}){w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][ %{B}D %d/%m{W} %c:%s %{g}]"
Kinda busy though, I think I may just swap for a while.
My .screenrc:
hardstatus alwayslastline "%w"
shell -$SHELL
- %w just shows the tabs, without any fancy colors.
- shell -$SHELL makes sure all my profile stuff get’s loaded when I create a new window inside my screen (such as aliases, etc)
rowan: let me know how you get on with the new version.
Dynom: I kind of like the colours, makes it obvious which bit belongs to screen and which is on my actual terminal, not rocket science but a nice visual clue all the same
A while ago I posted about screen, and included my .screenrc file. I got some teasing for this, since the tabs show up pink. In fact this .screenrc file is one I stole from somewhere a few years ago and didn't really think much about the colours. Since
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