screen and horizontal splitting

lord_nimula · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 31

I have been playing with screen the past couple days and so far like what I see. However, I would like to be able to split a terminal horizontally (i.e., multiple regions side-by-side) as well as vertically. Anyone know how to do this? Is there a similar program that offers this ability?

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ciaranm · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:26 pm Post subject:

You're screwed

Thesee · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:35 pm Post subject:

Yeap, I'd like to know how to do it.
According to their mailing list (here), it seems that this feature is enabled since screen-4.01.
I have version 4.0.3 and I don't see any reference to this in the man page.
Moreover, on this website they provide a patch to do it... but for version 4.01.

Any news above these?
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ok · Guru Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 390 Location: germany

I would like it, too. On tty with frame buffer on a wide screen i have a lot of free space on the right side. And sometimes it is difficult to catch the right line if something is printed at the end of a line, like: rc-status -a.

swimmer · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject:

You can split screen horizontally with Ctrl-a-S (aware of the capital!)

You can find that information in the info pages for screen - especially the section called "Regions" ...

HTH
swimmer

PS: I prefer app-text/pinfo to advise both info- *and* man-pages ;-)

truc · Advocate Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3199

there was a patch for screen to have vertical splitting, I gave the link somewhere in the forums. I don't know if it's still up to date though :/
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Thesee · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:44 pm Post subject:

Actually, what the first poster meant, and if he didn't, what I meant was to split the screen also vertically.
I know that <CTRL>-a + S will split it horizontally, but is there a way to do that vertically.
Like this:

swimmer · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject:

Well - as already said in this thread:

* the OP asked for horizontal splitting which is achieved by CTRL-a-S
* you can get vertical splitting via a patch which is mentioned in the forums and most likely at bugs.gentoo.org. Go look for it ;-)

Greetz
swimmer