Screen stuff.

Sparrowmelody · n00b Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Spain

Hi there! Sorry if this question is already around (trying to find for screen returns nothing!)...
I am new to screen, the "terminal multiplexing app" and I am quite curious about it. After learning the commands and the many advantages of its usage, I am officially in love with it

Now what I have to ask is...can you share some of your screen experiences? I mean...how do you use it, setups, ideas and hints? I am quite curious of what skilled users can do with it.

NOTE: This is not a question that can be answered with RTFM, I already know how to use screen...but I want to know more stuff and curiosities!

Thanks in advance everyone!
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Dizzutch · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:02 am Post subject:

i juse it in a simple way, just have a screen open on my home machine, and whenever i ssh into it i attach it, just so i don't forget about wat i was doing at home before i left..

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luisfelipe · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 377

We use here at our local lan to handle torrent downloads. We start a screen session with a user called 'user' (yeah, it's *that* original)
and run btlauncmanycurses, and then whenever we want to see what's going on we just do an emerge -x user/

Works like a charm

anfpunk · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:05 am Post subject:

Here is my basic one.

Sparrowmelody · n00b Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Spain

Ah, starting it before X...I am losing my touch, as I'd have thought of that before

I used to do the same thing using TWIN, a text-based WM...allowed attaching/detaching and it was very useful to not lose my Irssi connection when I restarted X.
I just thought of something nice to do using screen and FVWM...I'll post it right here if I manage to pull it out

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ZZamboni · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject:

I use this script, run from crontab during the night, which starts a detached screen and runs eix sync and emerge -uDav world on it, so when I come to work, I do "screen -RR" and today's list of updates is there, and all I have to do is say "Yes"