Comments on: screenrc – easy way to improve screen usability

By: Justin Riley

Justin Riley — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:31:07 +0000

Screen is good, but tmux is better!

Wow, you can say that again! I can FINALLY detach and reattach without losing my window splits (not to mention the splitting behavior is much better) and the keybindings can be easily set to match screen....GENIUS!

~jtriley

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:41:06 +0000

What coincidence - tonight I uninstalled screen and replaced it with tmux on all my systems.

By: Viktor S

Viktor S — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:41:23 +0000

Here's mine. I bind some F-keys to open/switch/rename windows, that makes screen even more user friendly in my opinion.

# skip the startup message
startup_message off

# Automatically detach on hangup.
autodetach on

# If a screen dies, don't freeze the whole screen waiting for it.
nonblock on

# UTF-8 is necessary.
defutf8 on

# Change default scrollback value for new windows
defscrollback 10000
# scrollback 10000

# start with visual bell as default
vbell off
vbell_msg "Bell on %t (%n)"

# look and feel
# caption always "%3n %t%? @%u%?%? [%h]%?%=%c"
# termcapinfo xterm 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=07:ds=\E]2;screen07'
hardstatus alwaysignore
# hardstatus alwayslastline '%{g}%-w%{b}%n %t%{-}%+w %<%{kk}'
hardstatus alwayslastline '%{bk}%-w%<%{gk}%n %t%{-}%+w %<%{kk}'

activity "Activity in %t (%n)"

bindkey -k k7 prev
bindkey -k k8 next
bindkey -k k9 title
bindkey -k k5 screen

By: livibetter

livibetter — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:53:42 +0000

Screen is good, but tmux is better!