From 719852c2dc60ebee0d37ccf1658bf3480b1cd87c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:35:59 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Added a note & link to the beginning of _screenrc. --- _screenrc | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/_screenrc b/_screenrc index 067591e..83d8b29 100644 --- a/_screenrc +++ b/_screenrc @@ -1,4 +1,17 @@ # .screenrc startup file for GNU Screen +# +# note, +# screen -x +# will attatch you to a screen without detaching other clients, creating a +# multi-user session. You can detach a single client from this session like +# you normally would with '^a d'. However, if you ran 'screen -x ...' *from* +# another screen, the '^a d' will detach your *original* screen. You can pass +# escaped commands on to deeper levels of screens with '^a a', which sends an +# '^a' to the process running inside your top level screen. So '^a a d' will +# detach you from the multi-user screen running inside your base screen :p. +# +# there is a nice introduction by Chris Lumens, at +# http://www.bangmoney.org/presentations/screen.html # don't show the startup splash screen -- 2.26.2