Re:My Development Environment, Part 1: GNU Screen
by jazzychad on Monday September 20, 2010 @08:38PM
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Thank you! I have been using screen for 2 years and wanted to know how to fix this, but never knew what phrase to google to see if there was a fix. Every time I would background emacs (^z) it would clobber all of my previous console output so I would have to re-grep things, for example.
In return I give you my favorite screen hack that displays the available RAM on the server every 30 seconds in the caption:
The caption string above also prints the current window titles and the time/date, so this is also useful for keeping ssh sessions open indefinitely since there is activity at least once a minute when the time updates.
In return I give you my favorite screen hack that displays the available RAM on the server every 30 seconds in the caption:
In ~/.screenrc
in ~/.screenrc.bt.2 The caption string above also prints the current window titles and the time/date, so this is also useful for keeping ssh sessions open indefinitely since there is activity at least once a minute when the time updates.