using screen

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 31 07:41:03 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:21:38PM -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
>On Jan 30, 2008 11:16 PM, William O'Higgins Witteman
><william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I am a generally happy Gnu screen user, but I have run into a problem.
>> I am not old-school enough to know what the man page is talking about
>> when they say this:
>>
>> C-a C-s     (xoff)        Send a control-s to the current window.
>>
>> I just know that it puts my screen instance into a state that I cannot
>> return it from.  Can someone tell me how to get my screen instance to
>> talk to me again?
>
>Hrmm, dunno about that.  You do know 'screen -ls' and 'screen -r' right?

I can go to the screen instance, but it does not echo any keystrokes,
and as far as I can tell, it doesn't receive any - but I can use screen
commands, to detach, switch instances, etc.  Thanks though.

>> Similarly, if I mis-click and hit C-a z, how do I get my session back?
>
>Anytime you put a process into the background, you can return it with 'fg'...

Good to know that works here too.
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yours,

William

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