Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
The 5.0.0 release includes the following changes to the previous release 4.9.1:
- Rewritten authentication mechanism
- Add escape %T to show current tty for window
- Add escape %O to show number of currently open windows
- Use wcwdith() instead of UTF-8 hard-coded tables
- New commands:
- auth [on|off] Provides password protection
- status [top|up|down|bottom] [left|right] The status window by default is in bottom-left corner. This command can move status messages to any corner of the screen.
- truecolor [on|off]
- multiinput Input to multiple windows at the same time
- Removed commands:
- time
- debug
- password
- maxwin
- nethack
- Fixes:
- Screen buffers ESC keypresses indefinitely
- Crashes after passing through a zmodem transfer
- Fix double -U issue
I have a lot of trouble with the window/pane management. Moving panes to a different window is rather difficult. The server>session>window>pane hierarchy also seems way too deep for my humble needs.
The fact that the active window syncs between sessions is also really odd. Why can’t I look at different windows on different devices?
Unless you copy and paste. In which case just stab yourself in the eye of you are using tmux.
I thought screen was abandonware after RHEL removed it in 2019 and recommended tmux instead.
only 5 commits less than 14 years old
I think you’re looking at the latest commit in each branch. There are ~40 commits this year.
Removed commands: nethack
What? screen had nethack builtin?
