screen
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Each virtual terminal provides the functions of the DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g., insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets).
| Tags | Systems Administration Terminals Terminal Emulators/X Terminals |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 29 Apr 2014 14:53
Release Notes: This is a major new release of GNU Screen which incorporates many important features and bugfixes since the last version. It features layouts, window groups, better mouse support, vertical splits, and new and expanded commands.
- 10 Oct 2008 14:56
Release Notes: The zombie command now has a new option, "onerror". A buffer overflow in resize.c has been fixed. Startup has been made more robust. Minor documentation updates have been added.
- 14 Jan 2004 15:34
Release Notes: This version fixes a possible security hole in the VT100 interpreter that was reported for 4.0.1.
- 01 Oct 2003 23:33
Release Notes: This release has a screen blanker, zmodem support, and an option to sort the window list by most recently used. Several sections have been rewritten, and several bugs fixed.
- 23 Oct 2002 14:36
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release, which means only two new features but many bugfixes. altscreen support was added. The limit for the number of windows can now be set via the new maxwin command.
Recent comments
screen - you can only love it!
This is one of the most useful tools ever. How can anybody rate it less than 10???
i like to combine it with dvtm, a console wm.
Re: Reference page about screen
New url for this site:
http://www.guckes.net/vortraege/screen/
Re: Fix for backspace problem on some systems
I had this problem running screen on FBSD, whilst logged in over ssh from a Linux box running X. The line:
*VT100*backarrowKey: 1
in .Xdefaults solved the problem.
Screen: The Serious Window Manager
If you love this geek stuff, you will probably find yourself leaving something like
Windows for something like Unix, GUIs for the command line, graphical editors for emacs
or vi, and finally -- the X server for console mode. When you get down here in the
black aether with the grunting codeheads (like me) I recommend you try Screen. The more
you use it, the more amazing it is. (Screen addicts will know the joys of detaching and
juggling multiple screen sessions.) Start out with a text-browser, editor, shell and su
in your .screenrc and discover the dark burn of console fonts glimmering in virtual
console-space. Once you get used to it down here, you'll never go back to high-density
pixels. (You can try to go back but they'll make your eyes hurt.)
--Kaspar Hauser
Re: Reference page about screen
> This page :
> http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/screen/
> is quite interesting.
New url for this site: http://www.guckes.net/screen/
jnweiger
15 Aug 2001 09:08
