In this tutorial, you learned how to use Gnu Screen. A single Screen session has the ability to … This patch provides a vertical split feature for current releases of GNU Screen. Apparently, it's possible to do vertical split to with C-a | #9 ssx commented on 2011-05-15: Thanks!
How to use mousewheel in GNU Screen. screen -t Shell1 1 bash: screen -t Shell2 2 bash: screen -t Python 3 python: screen -t Media 4 bash: select 0: bind c screen 1 # window numbering starts at 1 not 0: bind 0 select 10 # get rid of silly xoff stuff: bind s split # layouts: layout autosave on: layout new one: select 1: layout new two: select 1: split: resize -v … #10 Joseph McCullough commented on 2011-06-16: Thanks a lot!

Screen prevents a session from “timing out” or disconnecting SSH connections or local terminal emulators. Just introduced myself to the joys of GNU screen, and this is something I couldn't figure out. I use screen all the time and that always annoyed me. GNU Screen has support for scrollback, but by default you have to use awkward keys to use it. Programs running in Screen continue to run when their window is currently not visible and even when the whole screen session is detached from the user's terminal. C-mouse-2 In the mode line of a window, split that window. Screen allows you to manage multiple shell sessions from one terminal window or console, view multiple shell sessions at the same time, and even log into the same session from more than one location at a time.

Screen is a terminal multiplexer, similar to what you would find in a window manager.

GNU Screen is the granddaddy of these programs, but tmux and dvtm+dtach are other solutions you may prefer. tmux vs. screen. GNU Screen is the granddaddy of these programs, but tmux and dvtm+dtach are other solutions you may prefer. I would like to be able to use Shift-PageUp, Shift-PageDown and the mousewheel to scroll, just like you can do in xterm. C-x 2 (split-window-below) splits the selected window into two windows, one above the other. We’ve written about using GNU Screen to multitask in the Linux terminal in the past. After splitting, the selected window is the upper one, and the newly split-off window is below. Split the selected window into two windows, positioned side by side (split-window-right). GNU Screen (or just Screen) is a useful and versatile, but somewhat under-appreciated utility that, as part of the GNU project, is included or available in nearly every Linux or UNIX distribution. Now you can start using the Screen utility and create multiple screen windows from a single session, navigate between windows, detach and resume screen sessions and personalize your screen terminal using the .screenrc file. GNU Screen is one of the most useful utilities you can have at your disposal if you spend any time at all working at the command line. GNU Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. The other window switching commands work within a split screen. Both the tmux and GNU screen commands are terminal multiplexers.They allow you to have multiple windows within a single terminal window, and to jump back and forth between them. The feature is designed to function in the same manner as screen's existing split command, but dividing the regions vertically instead of horizontally.

GNU Screen is a tool which works with a terminal session to allow users to resume a session after they have disconnected.