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Screen - Runs separate screens on a single terminal

A full screen window manager that lets a physical terminal handle several processes, typically interactive shells.

Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal as well as several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 and ISO 2022 standards. Each virtual terminal has a scrollback history buffer and a copy/paste mechanism to move text regions between windows.

"Screen" creates a single window with a shell (or a specified command) in it; after that you run the program as you normally would. You can create new full-screen windows with other programs in them, including more shells, at any time; you can also kill the current window, view a list of active windows, toggle output logging, copy text between windows, view the scrollback history, switch between windows, etc. Windows run their programs independently of each other; programs keep running even if their window is not visible or the whole screen session detaches from the terminal.

Obtaining

Web page http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/screen.html
Source tarball http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/screen/screen-4.0.2.tar.gz
Version 4.0.2 (stable) released on 2004-01-14

Licensed under GPL.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User reference manual included

Support contacts

Bug List

<bug-screen@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Juergen Weigert <jnweiger@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Developers	Juergen Weigert <jnweiger@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Michael Schroeder <mlschroe@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Contributors	Oliver Laumann Jason Merrill

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Source languages	C

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-06-27
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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