* Alan Shutko (ats@acm.org) [010911 09:52]: > Frederik Vanrenterghem <frederik@maui.kotnet.org> writes: > > > I'm using screen on 1 machine with 2 windows, 1 of the windows is used to > > ssh to another machine. Now I would like to start a new screen session on > > that other machine, and be able to create new virtual windows in that > > session (normally ctrl-a ctrl-c). > > The problem is that the C-a you type is captured by the first screen, > and not passed on. Either set a different escape character on the > second machine, or hit C-a twice, ie C-a C-a C-c. Not exactly, as C-a C-a will perform screen's "other" command, meaning switch back and forth between this window and the last. See when you do 'C-a ?' it tells you at the top 'Literal ^A: a'. So for the first screen session to pass a ^A to the second screen session, you need to send it a C-a a. That means in order to create a new window on the "inner" screen session, you're looking for C-a a c or C-a a C-c another option is to use a different meta character for the "inner" screen. For instance, I often use ^A to get to the beginning of the line and find it annoying as my screen command key. I find that ^Z works better. I can start it with "screen -e ^Zz" or by specifying "escape ^Zz" in my ~.screenrc . You could use this to assign different meta characters to nested screens: use ^A for the "outer" screen, and start an "inner" screen with 'screen -e ^Zz' and then you can use ^Z to control the inner screen, instead of having to deal with escaping C-a with C-a a. -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized use of this .sig may constitute violation of US law. echo Qba\'g gernq ba zr\! |tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M'
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