A terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation.
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Each virtual terminal provides the functions of the DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g., insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets). There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows the user to move text regions between windows. When screen is called, it creates a single window with a shell in it (or the specified command) and then gets out of your way so that you can use the program as you normally would. Then, at any time, you can create new (full-screen) windows with other programs in them (including more shells), kill the current window, view a list of the active windows, turn output logging on and off, copy text between windows, view the scrollback history, switch between windows, etc. All windows run their programs completely independent of each other. Programs continue to run when their window is currently not visible and even when the whole screen session is detached from the users terminal.
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- Licence:
- GNU GPL v2
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screen source package in Xenial
Version 4.3.1-2ubuntu0.1 uploaded -
screen source package in Wheezy
Version 4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7+deb7u1 uploaded -
screen source package in Trusty
Version 4.2.1-2~ubuntu14.04.1 uploaded -
screen source package in Squeeze
Version 4.0.3-14 uploaded -
screen source package in Sid
Version 4.9.1-1 uploaded