General Information

Messing with screen, making it work for you!

Requirements

None

Installation

As root (duh :P)

#	cd /usr/ports/sysutilites/screen && make install clean

Configuration

All right once you install screen go back to using your normal user.  In your home dir do the following (whatever text editor you like):

$	vim .screenrc

There are a lot of options for your screenrc but for the most part these are the ones I have found to be useful.

#These are keybindings, you can also use the F1-F10 to map to specific screens #F11 = previous screen | F12 = next screen bindkey -k F2 next bindkey -k F1 prev startup_message off nethack on deflogin on defscrollback 1000 # Optional name and command to execute # These are great it will display all the screens rather than having to detach and the do 'screen -ls' screen -t irssi 0 screen -t mail 1 screen -t news 2 screen -t notes 3 screen -t freebsd 4 screen -t unix 5 screen -t admin 6 screen -t systm 7 select 0 #This selects screen 0 (irssi) as the default screen when its started # Display $USER and screen titles in a neat way :P caption always "%{=b dy}{ %{= dm}${USER} %{=b dy}}%={ %?%{= dc}%-Lw%?%{+b dy}(%{-b r}%n:%t%{+b dy})%?(%u)%?%{-dc}%?%{= dc}%+Lw%? %{=b dy}}"

Well this is a very basic setup but it should get you started.  I personally love the keymapping cause pressing one key is a lot faster than pressing a combo, (not to mention it's easier to remember).

This guide is © 2007 - 2010 Patrick.

Author: Patrick
faustcoder at gmail dot com