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Tag 4: Urvater **GNU Screen**! 📺

Robust, unkompliziert und fast überall dabei. Screen ist oft die letzte Rettung für eine persistente Session auf Minimal-Systemen. Ein wahrer Klassiker!

Link: https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

#GNUScreen #Terminal #CLI #Linux #OpenSource #RadioTux #Classic

Burned some time over the last week or so fiddling with GNU Screen hardstatus changes they made in version 5.x. There wasn't a ton of info out there, so I infodumped my notes into a semi-coherent blog post:

https://www.pingle.org/2026/04/26/screen-5-status-color-changes

Also had some fun playing with truecolor terminal settings and clients, but I left most of that out. We've come a long way since 16 color terminals. (And kitty pushes that even further. Story for another day, perhaps.)

#GNUScreen #Screen #Linux #FreeBSD

Ej nerdoza!

Czasem człowiek potrzebuje „splitnąć screena” Żeby widzieć dwie rzeczy na raz. No i spoko.
A później próbuje go połączyć i wiadomo ^a X … tylko jak zapomnieć o shift i klepnąć ^a x to on się blokuje, pyta o hasło… tylko kurde jakie hasło?! Bo ani moje hasło, ani puste hasło… i w ogóle po co mi to hasło? :D

Radzicie sobie z tym jakoś? No to jak?

#GNUscreen

GNU screen: Multiple Security Issues in Screen (mostly affecting release 5.0.0 and setuid-root installations)

#gnuscreen #screen #vulnerability #cybersecurity

https://vulnerability.circl.lu/bundle/c74ad4e9-43df-4294-a337-22d34debbe64

🚨 Oh no! GNU Screen has "security issues"—quick, everyone panic! Meanwhile, the tech wizards are too busy inventing new buzzwords and password-cracking supertools that sound like rejected Marvel villains to actually fix anything. 🙄🔧
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1 #GNUScreen #Security #Issues #Panic #TechBuzzwords #PasswordCracking #MarvelVillains #HackerNews #ngated

Multiple Security Issues in GNU Screen

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1

#HackerNews #MultipleSecurityIssues #GNUScreen #Cybersecurity #Vulnerabilities #OpenSource #SecurityResearch

as a recent convert to tmux from gnu screen, there's just a lot to love here

https://youtu.be/o-qtso47ECk

#tmux #gnuscreen #terminal

ok yes fine, #tmux is better, i have swapped. everybody was right, everybody gets a cookie. fine.

https://github.com/ellotheth/dotfiles/blob/main/tmux.conf

(i made it as much like #gnuscreen as possible :flan_thumbs:)

Irgendwie habe ich heute schon zum zweiten Mal die Tastenkombinationen von #GNUScreen und #Emacs fürs vertikale Aufsplitten von Fenstern und das Wechseln zwischen Fenstern bzw. Buffern durcheinander gewürfelt:

Statt "Control-X 2" und "Control-X O" (Emacs) hatte ich "Control-X Shift-S" und "Control-X Tab" (Emacs-Prefix mit Screen-Kommando-Suffix) gedrückt. 🤪

Dabei isses heute gar nicht mal so heiss…

I know some people find #neovim compelling, but every time I try it I'm reminded of how #tmux (which is cool in its own way) never really replaced #gnuscreen for me. With enough tweaking you can make tmux feel like screen, but then why bother?

I've been using #vim approx. forever. With various plugins it does everything I currently want. Besides being "new and shiny," if you're not working on the vim code and finding cruft from decades of development, what's the actual wow-factor for neovim?

@kd since I switched from #mIRC to a CLI client, I use #GNUScreen and ssh from my phone if I need to.

Employer: Upgrades some systems to RHEL8

Me: Fine, I guess I'll finally start learning how to migrate from screen to tmux.

#GNUScreen #tmux

@dch #GNUScreen was the closest. In #tmux you couldn't drive separate panes / windows, whereas in #Screen there are `:acladd $USERNAME` to share a socket with another user and the default behaviour is that an active window is personal per user connected.

I used to use GNU Screen for pair programming, but #LiveShare is truly revolutionary. I think that it's less of a hardware proceedings and more so proceedings in practical implementations of conflict-free data structures.

#asciinema https://asciinema.org/
Record #commandline compactly and efficiently with e.g. automatic elimination of parts / times where nothing is happening #pty (compare #ssh #gnuscreen #tmax ) can run in windows on #wsl #recorder #screenrecording #screenrecorder ( #rust #webassembly ) easy #embedding copy commands from recording

@skybert I’ve wondered why I’ve never seen a native terminal emulator have its buffers 1:1 to #gnuscreen or #tmux sessions. Having native window resizing, scrollback seems like a thing people would want?

#TIL someone made a usable pair prog system. I achieve the same with #GNUScreen (users can work independently with GNU Screen, whereas in tmux they can't, and I'm not sure tmate addresses that) + yggdrasil + throw away user + SSH key.

But the amount of tech #tmate people grokked to make their fork is admirable.

https://github.com/tmate-io

Is #NeoVim the #Tmux to #vim's #GNUScreen? Am I just being a cantankerous greybeard for not making the jump?

@mdurell I used #GNUScreen for much time but moved to #tmux as it crashes less for me on longer sessions. #Bash is, of course, a no-brainer if you are a GNU/Linux sysadmin, and #neovim over #vim for the native #LSP support.

ааааа! як я міг не знати про screen -x?! інколи так зручно використати screen «навпаки»: не мультиплексовані сесії в одному вікні, а... декілька вікон в одну сесію! (ламає рядок стану screen, на жаль, але то дрібниці)

#linux #gnuscreen #українською

I've been using ssh to access my office linux system from home and I usually start GNU screen to give me multiple terminals on my office system. But one problem was that the colours used by Emacs in a terminal under screen did not match the colours used by Emacs when launched as a GUI application.

Finally managed to fix it by doing this:

> export TERM='xterm-256color'; emacs -nw

Yep, $TERM was the culprit.

Now I'm a happier user of Emacs under ssh. 🙂

#Emacs #Linux #SSH #GNUScreen