Screen help

[Kerry Hoath]

Control a DD will power-detach,
exit screen and kill the parent shell does that help?

Note that the D's have to be uppercase.

Having screen launch for every user in /etc/bash_profile might work but 
will fail for anyone who ever needs an 8-bit clean terminal connection 
for sz or kermit or rsync usage. You'll have to work around that for 
users that want to rsync.
I set
screen -R
in my .bash_profile for each user I want screen loaded for.


To have screen create a new session if you don't have one or reattach to 
a currently attached session
screen -d -R

You might also want the following added to the system screenrc or your 
user .screenrc

startup_message off
vbell off
nethack on

Okay the Nethack is just for a bit of fun.

Regards, Kerry.

On 31/03/2013 5:47 PM, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know some of you here use the "screen" package.  I'm having a slight 
> annoyance and I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.  First, I don't like 
> tmux because it seems to use more memory and shows an annoying clock 
> which seems to interfere with console output.  It reads the time when 
> the clock is updated and makes it hard to review what's on the 
> screen.  I'm sure there is a way around this, but Screen is older and 
> more established, so that's what I use here.
>
> What I want to do is always have Screen start when I log into a 
> shell.  It doesn't need to start for subshells since I can create new 
> windows as needed.  If I already have a detached session, I would like 
> it to reattach automatically.  I added a line to /etc/bash_profile so 
> it would start for all users which is what I want.  The problem is 
> that it always launches a new shell when I log in, so I have to log 
> out twice.  I first press ^D which ends the Screen session and ^D 
> again to actually close my ssh connection. Is there a way that I don't 
> have to do this?  I could make screen my shell, but I don't know if 
> that's a good idea.  What do other people do?  I read the man page and 
> I don't see a way to get Screen to become the parent shell without 
> launching a new shell when it starts.
>
> Thanks for any ideas and suggestions.
>
>
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