From: Nick Moffitt To: linux-elitists@zgp.org Subject: Re: GUI/CLI mail client (was Re: [linux-elitists] What's some marketing +buzzwords for what we do?) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 12:01:10 -0800 begin Rick Moen Lives Three Hours from Nowhere quotation: > In a minority of such cases, screen won't yet have noticed that > you're gone: > > [rick@uncle-enzo] > ~ $ screen -r > There is a screen on: > 8672.pts-0.uncle-enzo (Attached) > There is no screen to be resumed. > [rick@uncle-enzo] > > In that case, you detach it manually (screen -d), then reattach > (screen -r). I always just run "screen -r -d" as a matter of habit. I actually ssh into zork twice on identically-sized xterms and run "screen -r -d" in one (for mail) and "screen -x" in the other (for IRC). I ^An and ^Ap around to get to shells in whichever window doesn't have something of immediate concern to me at the moment. One of zork's users wrote the following keen script to turn nwall (apt-cache show nwall) into a split-screen chat app: #!/usr/bin/screen -mc # Nate's IRC (not actually an IRC client) # nirc is a screen config file that slaps an IRC-like interface on nwall escape ^yy split screen bash -c 'nwall -y; bash' focus resize 3 screen bash -c 'mesg n; nwall -s' It works a charm, but it does make for more work at the command line sometimes if you run it and another screen session at the same time (I often run it inside one of the screen windows, hence the "escape ^yy"). -- A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? From: Adam Lazur To: linux-elitists@zgp.org Subject: Re: GUI/CLI mail client (was Re: [linux-elitists] What's some marketing +buzzwords for what we do?) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:46:49 -0500 Nick Moffitt (nick@zork.net) said: > I always just run "screen -r -d" as a matter of habit. I > actually ssh into zork twice on identically-sized xterms and run > "screen -r -d" in one (for mail) and "screen -x" in the other (for > IRC). I ^An and ^Ap around to get to shells in whichever window > doesn't have something of immediate concern to me at the moment. FWIW, I use "screen -A -x -RR" as the DWIM screen commandline. It attaches to a screen session if one exists, otherwise it starts up a new session. (NOTE: b/c the screen cmdline parser is buggy, the order of the options matters). Used in combination with a shell alias or wrapper script, it becomes a simple way to always maintain a single screen session on each host.