using screen

[Lennart Sorensen]

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?

Sending an xoff tells the terminal to pause.  sending an xon (C-q) lets
it go again.  Similar to scroll lock on a linux text console.

> > 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'...

Yep.

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