GNU screen notes

Look through scrollback, which includes pressing slash to search, and space-scrolling-space to select text.

CTRL+a, [

To escape viewing scrollback, press ESC.
Paste what you had selected from scrollback:

CTRL+a, ]

Detach from a screen inside a screen session, courtesy of a user named chaos on Unix StackExchange.

CTRL+a, a, d

List help:

CTRL+a, ?

Split current session into two windows, switch to second window, and start new shell session in that window.

CTRL+a, |
CTRL+a, TAB
CTRL+a, c

I had some trouble running my “set -o vi” ESC commands in bash when inside a screen (or inside a screen inside a screen), but I found that pressing SHIFT with ESC made it recognize the ESC key more often.

Interesting meeting and screen sharing sites and tools

Screen sharing applications

Over the internet

• Teamviewer https://www.teamviewer.com/
• LogMeIn https://secure.logmein.com/home
• ScreenConnect https://www.connectwise.com/software/control
• Bomgar https://www.bomgar.com/
• AnyDesk https://anydesk.com/remote-desktop

Over LAN

• RDP http://www.freerdp.com/
• VNC (specifically http://tigervnc.org/)
• NoMachine or “NX” https://www.nomachine.com/

Meeting sites

• https://meet.jit.si
• https://appear.in/
• https://rocket.chat/

Research further

apache guacamole https://www.ostechnix.com/apache-guacamole-access-computer-anywhere-via-web-browser/

Scroll in GNU screen

http://www.linuxscrew.com/2008/11/14/faq-how-to-scrollback-in-gnu-screen/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/359109/using-the-scrollwheel-in-gnu-screen

 

The most important thing:

Add to ~/.screenrc

termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@