Tag Archives: screen

screen copy mode can be used to copy/paste

Posted on July 10, 2008 by mikegrb

I’m aware of many people that use GNU Screen’s copy mode to scroll back through terminal history but don’t actually use copy mode for copying text for later pasting. I was one of those people myself for some time. Screen … Continue reading →

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Rotate through Screen Windows

Posted on June 26, 2008 by mikegrb

A new command in screen version 4.00 is the idle command. idle time command Executes screen command, command when idle for time seconds. E.g. to rotate through screen windows with a 3 second interval: idle 3 next To cancel, idle … Continue reading →

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Weather in Screen Statusbar

Posted on June 5, 2008 by mikegrb

Caspar Clemens Mierau recently wrote about a nifty Debian package named weather-util and his method for embedding the current temperature into the screen status bar. Quite nifty. I did the same with one small exception, including the predicted probability of … Continue reading →

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