X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/5aea0190d2334ba1f8622062631138c258231df6..3ecb931e64d301db83740e004f989413b7c68458:/doc/screen.mdwn diff --git a/doc/screen.mdwn b/doc/screen.mdwn index b2cd390..2b710e9 100644 --- a/doc/screen.mdwn +++ b/doc/screen.mdwn @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from multiple places. ## Getting Started - 1. Pick a machine to run your screen session on. If you don't know of any options, linux.mit.edu (Linerva) is a good choice. + 1. Pick a machine to run your screen session on. If you don't know of any options, athena.dialup.mit.edu (Athena Dialup) is a good choice. 2. ssh to that machine. 3. run `screen` 4. Do stuff. @@ -49,15 +49,8 @@ to share context between different screens, or even different people, but doing it when you're not sure where else your screen might be attached has privacy implications. -##Switching Between Screen Sessions -C-a C-a allows you to switch between screen sessions incrementally. If you have created 3 screen sessions and find your self at the 0th one, then C-a C-a will put you in the 1st screen session, then C-a C-a again will put you in the 2nd one. You can also move around in the screen session by using C-a [index number]. Such that C-a[1] would accomplish the same thing as C-a C-a when you were on the 0th window. - - ## For More Information `screen` can do lots of stuff. If you have a while to burn, run `man screen` at the shell prompt. It may be helpful to do this inside of `screen` so you can put it down and come back to it later. - -## TODO -clean up, explain the "C-a C-a" notation better.