using screen

[Giles Orr]

On Jan 31, 2008 9:19 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

Huh.  Thanks for the clarification, I've always wondered about that
having accidentally hit that key myself.

And since we're on the subject of screen ...  I've always wanted to be
able to split screens in screen, and I found in the man page that you
can in fact do that with Ctrl-a s ...  But then I haven't the
slightest idea how to get into the new and empty half of the window or
start a shell there.  Has anyone used that functionality?

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