Tag: Screen

Adding a clock in screen to avoid your ssh’s from being killed

The world is filled with stupid routers, which kill all connections that have no activity for a while (even a very short while). I keep loosing my SSH sessions because of this. To fix it, I added a clock in my GNU screen bar: Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 years ago, on October 31, 2012, at 11:10 | 5 comments

Xen console

To get the console of your Linux guests on a Xen machine, type "xm console ". Then to exit, press "ctrl-]". When in screen, do "ctrl-a, a, ctrl-]".

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By halfgaar, 9 years ago, on January 31, 2010, at 20:01 | Comments closed

My custom Linux environment

On every machine that I install, I need a custom environment. At the very basic, I need screen and bash customizations. I will attempt to keep this blog post up-to-date with my most recent config. Read More »
By halfgaar, 9 years ago, on January 04, 2010, at 11:01 | Comments closed

GNU Screen within Screen within […]

GNU Screen is great. So great that I find myself always using it. (Pressing the Window key and T launches an XTerm with a new Screen ready on my system, while I have to add Shift if I don't want the screen.) This means that when I login into a some other machine through SSH—an occasion for which Screen is particularly useful—I will often end up with nested screens. So which Screen will receive my Ctrl+a presses? Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on January 11, 2009, at 21:01 | 5 comments

GNU Screen window captions as XTerm tabs

XTerm is my favorite terminal emulator and I love GNU Screen. So, imagine my joy when I found out that Screen can persistently show window captions ([Ctrl+A]: caption always). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on December 04, 2008, at 22:12 | 6 comments

Remote pair programming with GNU Screen

I like pair programming. So much, in fact, that I want to do it even if I can't look over the other person's shoulder due to some geographical offset. Since I'm a real command-line freak, I can get what I want easily by using GNU Screen. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on July 23, 2008, at 18:07 | 5 comments