Any good screen tutorial?

[kevdog]

Ok I'm lazy -- at least I admit it -- in search of good screen tutorial. Thanks for any suggestions.

[LaRoza]

http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/screen/

Not meant to be insulting, but I find that (but I use man screen and pipe it into grep) most useful.

The actual good stuff isn't in the beginning, so you will have to scroll down a bit to get the use of it.

[loell]

<snip>

[kevdog]

<snip> ????

[loell]

sorry was too quick to respond, that i didn't get the context. so i just <snip> than make myself more stupid, yeah i know <snip> is also silly. :biggrin:

[cmay]

http://www.linux.com/base/ldp/howto/HOWTO-INDEX/index.htmlt
here should be a lot of tutorials and how to.
i think i spotted one the that was maybe usefull to you.
hope it helps.

[cmay]

<snip>i wish they had a build in snip tag</snip>

[lisati]

sorry was too quick to respond, that i didn't get the context. so i just <snip> than make myself more stupid, yeah i know <snip> is also silly. :biggrin:
Been there, done that!

[cmay]

i just did again i think.
i am getting really bad at spelling lately :)

[kevdog]

http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/screen/

Not meant to be insulting, but I find that (but I use man screen and pipe it into grep) most useful.

The actual good stuff isn't in the beginning, so you will have to scroll down a bit to get the use of it.

That sure was an eloquent way to tell me to just RTFM! Rather diplomatic wouldn't you say?

[LaRoza]

That sure was an eloquent way to tell me to just RTFM! Rather diplomatic wouldn't you say?

I am sorry, I didn't want it to come across as that.

There are several tools in which the man pages are more handy than a tutorial IMO, and screen just happened to be one of them.

[kevdog]

I meant that as a joke. If the man page is well written then great -- I usually find the man pages really unhelpful until you have already figured a lot of things out either through reading other material, or through trial and error. Then the cryptic underexplained flags in the man pages then start to make sense. If this is an exception to the rule, then I welcome it with open arms.

[LaRoza]

I meant that as a joke. If the man page is well written then great -- I usually find the man pages really unhelpful until you have already figured a lot of things out either through reading other material, or through trial and error. Then the cryptic underexplained flags in the man pages then start to make sense. If this is an exception to the rule, then I welcome it with open arms.

Well, the list of key combos is the most helpful, which is why you have to scroll down a bit.

The flags are less useful, except for a couple.

Here is the tutorial I first used (second half): http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi

[zmjjmz]

I have a good one:
Use ctrl-a c to make a new terminal, and use ctrl-a n where n is the number of terminal that you made.
For running multiple apps in the same screen, try using splitvt, dvtm, or twin.

[DigitalDuality]

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[kevdog]

screen also runs on cygwin -- nice!! another hidden gem to link the windows boxes with the ubuntu boxes!!

[chucky chuckaluck]

screen also runs on cygwin -- nice!! another hidden gem to link the windows boxes with the ubuntu boxes!!

damn! i wish someone had told me that before i dumped ME. anyway, i've gotten some good things out of gentoo's info - http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen