Re: local and remote screens

[Pia Mikeal]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Rich Boyce wrote:

> > ^a a d
> > where ^ denotes the control key.
>
> Bingo! Nested screens seems to be what I was after, and works for me. I tried 
> nested screens before, but didn't know about the ^a-a-d to control the nested 
> screen session, so I could only control the top-level screen. This is 
> perfect.

You can nest screens quite deep.  Just add an extra "a" for the control 
character for each screen you are nested deep, and this works for all 
screen commands.  So just as ^a d detaches one level deep, ^a a d two 
levels, ^a a a d would detach 3 levels deep.  Likewise, to open a new 
window in a screen one level deep ^a c and a window in a screen two levels 
deep such as the remote screen you were talking about here would be ^a a c

> Certainly does! Thanks very much,

You are welcome!  I am glad to help!


Pia Mikeal
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Purdue University
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