Re: local and remote screens

2008-12-09 Thread Aaron Davies
one of these days i'm going to rewrite the Telnet Song about screen. i just need to figure out how to get "control a d" to scan to "control up-arrow q". :) On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Pia Mikeal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 9

Re: local and remote screens

2008-12-09 Thread Pia Mikeal
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Rich Boyce wrote: ^a a d where ^ denotes the control key. Bingo! Nested screens seems to be what I was after, and works for me. I tried nested screens before, but didn't know about the ^a-a-d to control the nested screen session, so I could only control the top-level scre

Re: local and remote screens

2008-12-09 Thread Rich Boyce
Hi Pia, Pia Mikeal wrote: The best thing to do would be to detach the remote screen before you log out of the remote box instead of detaching only from your local machine. To detach from a screen within a screen, the command would be ^a a d where ^ denotes the control key. Bingo! Nested scr

Re: local and remote screens

2008-12-09 Thread Pia Mikeal
The best thing to do would be to detach the remote screen before you log out of the remote box instead of detaching only from your local machine. To detach from a screen within a screen, the command would be ^a a d where ^ denotes the control key. Then, when you log back into the remote machin

local and remote screens

2008-12-09 Thread Rich Boyce
Hello all, I've just started using screen in earnest, and am very impressed. However, I'm currently struggling with one thing. If I start screen on my local machine (tom), log into another (dick) through SSH, then detach, I cannot reattach to the session when I log into dick from a third mac

Titling the "external" window

2008-12-09 Thread Dan Mahoney
Hey all, Can anyone think of a way in which screen can pass-through the current titled window (modified or not) to an external screen? i.e. so when I have screen-within-a-screen, I can get accurate titling, OR when I have a system whereby the shell titles my xterm/putty window, such is ackno