Archive for tag: screen

How to Control screen from Within Other screen Sessions

19 May, 2010 (23:22) | Linux, Mac OS X, screen, UNIX, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

Today a tip for all the GNU screen fans out there. It's really nothing special and the manpage readers might already know this but as I only figured this out lately I thought I would share it anyway:

By default control sequences in screen begin with C-a (pressing Ctrl and a at the same time). ...

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Autostart GNU Screen on a zsh Login Shell

16 May, 2010 (23:49) | Linux, UNIX, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

To automatically start GNU screen every time you log into your zsh shell just put the following command into your $HOME/.zprofile:

screen -DR

The advantage of placing the command in the .zprofile file is that it is only read by login shells. The -DR option creates a new screen session or reattaches a running one. The ...

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