This happens because you may have done a sudo su user_name and then fired the screen command. There are 2 ways to fix this. Login directly to “user_name” via ssh. Take ownership of the shell by typing script /dev/null as the user user_name and then type screen
You create a screen with a name and in detached mode: screen -S “mylittlescreen” -d -m Then you send the command to be executed on your screen: screen -r “mylittlescreen” -X stuff $’ls\n’ The stuff command is to send keystrokes inside the screen. The $ before the string command is to make the shell parse … Read more
You can grep the output of screen -list for the name of the session you are checking for: if ! screen -list | grep -q “myscreen”; then # run bash script fi
The wording is a little unlucky – this happens because there still is a screen session attached to 14313.pts-18.b-dev03 and you cannot simply “resume” a non-detached session. You need to use the -x option in addition to attaching to this session with a second screen instance (or, alternatively, detach the existing session first): -x Attach … Read more
Once you are in scrollback mode with Ctrl + A, ESC, you should be able to search backwards through the buffer as described in the manual. So to search for the word “string”, press Ctrl + A, ESC, enter ?string and press Enter. It will take you backwards through the buffer to the word string. … Read more
If you want screen to always treat your shell as a login shell, and source the same files that would be read if just started a new shell normally, add the following to ~/.screenrc (or maybe ~/.byobu/.screenrc, as pointed out in the comment): shell -$SHELL This way, you don’t need to manually tell it to … Read more
Short Answer Set TERM to xterm-256color in your .bashrc, and put term screen-256color in your .screenrc. Long Answer Here’s why this breaks: gnome-terminal, screen, tmux, bash, putty and vim have all been written to intelligently handle 256 colors, but you need to set things up correctly at the earliest possible point. Using termcapinfo in your … Read more
See the GNU Screen chdir command. All new windows created in Screen use this as their initial directory. Using this, you can do something like: chdir /home/dan/newscreendir screen And your new window (along with any future created windows) will be in the set directory. If it’s always going to be the current working directory you … Read more
Does the -t option do what you want? -t Force pseudo-tty allocation. This can be used to execute arbi- trary screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be very useful, e.g. when implementing menu services. Multiple -t options force tty allocation, even if ssh has no local tty. So: laptop> ssh -t server.com screen … Read more
You can set the screen / xterm title using the following lines: #!/bin/bash mytitle=”Some title” echo -e ‘\033k’$mytitle’\033\\’ [UPDATE] – by request I’m also including the solution proposed by @Espo below: Depending on your xterm version or your linux distribution the line above may or may not work and you can try the xterm-defaults: #!/bin/bash … Read more