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The commands described here do not fit well under any of the other categories.
(none)
Execute a command at other displays or windows as if it had been entered there.
At changes the context (the `current window' or `current display'
setting) of the command. If the first parameter describes a non-unique context,
the command will be executed multiple times. If the first parameter is of the
form `identifier*' then identifier is matched against user names.
The command is executed once for each display of the selected user(s).
If the first parameter is of the form `identifier%' identifier is
matched against displays. Displays are named after the ttys they attach. The
prefix `/dev/' or `/dev/tty' may be omitted from the identifier.
If identifier has a # or nothing appended it is matched against
window numbers and titles. Omitting an identifier in front of the #,
* or % character selects all users, displays or windows because
a prefix-match is performed. Note that on the affected display(s) a short
message will describe what happened. Caution: Permission is checked for the
owners or the affected display(s), not for the initiator of the `at' command.
(none)
Send a break signal for duration*0.25 seconds to this window.
Most useful if a character device is attached to the window rather than
a shell process.
(none)
Reopen the window's terminal line and send a break condition.
(none)
Turns runtime debugging on or off. If screen has been compiled with
option -DDEBUG debugging is available and is turned on per default.
Note that this command only affects debugging output from the main
`SCREEN' process.
(none)
Display the disclaimer page. This is done whenever screen is
started without options, which should be often enough.
(none)
Changes the kind of error messages used by screen. When you are
familiar with the game nethack, you may enjoy the nethack-style
messages which will often blur the facts a little, but are much funnier
to read. Anyway, standard messages often tend to be unclear as well.
This option is only available if screen was compiled with the
NETHACK flag defined (see section Installation). The default setting is then
determined by the presence of the environment variable
$NETHACKOPTIONS.
(C-a N)
Change the current window's number. If the given number n is already
used by another window, both windows exchange their numbers. If no argument is
specified, the current window number (and title) is shown.
(none)
Toggles silence monitoring of windows. When silence is turned on and an
affected window is switched into the background, you will receive the
silence notification message in the status line after a specified period
of inactivity (silence). The default timeout can be changed with the
silencewait command or by specifying a number of seconds instead of
on or off. Silence is initially off for all windows.
(none)
Define the time that all windows monitored for silence should wait
before displaying a message. Default is 30 seconds.
(C-a t, C-a C-t)
Uses the message line to display the time of day, the host name, and the
load averages over 1, 5, and 15 minutes (if this is available on your
system). For window-specific information use info (see section Info).
(C-a v, C-a C-v)
Display the version and modification date in the message line.
(none)
Per default windows are removed from the window list as soon as the
windows process (e.g. shell) exits. When a string of two keys is
specified to the zombie command, `dead' windows will remain in the list.
The kill kommand may be used to remove the window. Pressing the first key
in the dead window has the same effect. Pressing the second key, however,
screen will attempt to resurrect the window. The process that was initially
running in the window will be launched again. Calling zombie without
parameters will clear the zombie setting, thus making windows disappear when
the process terminates.
As the zombie setting is affected globally for all windows, this command
should only be called defzombie. Until we need this as a per window
setting, the commands zombie and defzombie are synonymous.
(none)
If cmd is not an empty string, screen will not use the terminal
capabilities po/pf for printing if it detects an ansi print
sequence ESC [ 5 i, but pipe the output into cmd.
This should normally be a command like `lpr' or
`cat > /tmp/scrprint'.
Printcmd without an argument displays the current setting.
The ansi sequence ESC \ ends printing and closes the pipe.
Warning: Be careful with this command! If other user have write access to your terminal, they will be able to fire off print commands.
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