[ILUG] tip of the day: screen

[Stephen Shirley]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Dave O Connor wrote:

> CTRL-A c to open a new session
> CTRL-A <number> to switch between screens by number
> CTRL-A DD to detach and logout
> 
> Then when you login later, from somewhere else, type
> screen -x
> 
> And get all your screens back. Wheee!
> 
> 	- DoC
> 
Yeah screen rocks. I've just one problem with it tho. If I am in a screen,
I can't recieve mesagges (talk requests etc), and mesg y doesn't affect
it. I think it's because screen automatically disables it for the parent
pty, and mesg only works on the current pty. Anyway - anyone know a
solution?>

Steve