[SLL] Screen

[johnbaxterlists at mac.com]

On Jan 13, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Glenn Stone wrote:

> There are two ways to disconnect, and a couple different ways to  
> reconnect
> as well.  C-a d will disconnect the screen session, but leave you  
> logged in;
> C-a C-d is a "power detach" which also terminates the calling  
> shell.  This
> is what I do just before going home.
>
> Then on the other end, I do
>
> ssh colohost -t "screen -D -R"


Thanks for the reconnect information.

If one gets into multi-level screen usage (as my colleague finds  
himself doing a fair amount), it's handy to change escape characters  
using -e in the screen command in one of the levels (as my colleague  
routinely forgets to do).  Otherwise, disconnecting becomes something  
of a blunderbuss approach.

-e ^Aa
produces the default--control-A is the command character, and control- 
Aa is the way to type a control-A into the session (eg, to return to  
the start of a line in many contexts).

There is so much more to screen than I've ever used.

   --John