Split Screen with Screen in Linux - BASH

Helpful, thank you.

Thanks dude.. Very useful..

Interesting. I'm used to tmux, in which panes (split windows) are within windows (entire screens) so you can't change the session in each pane. It looks like in screen, separate shell sessions are contained within windows, allowing any, including multiple, split panes to have the same shell session.

Congratulations for the tutorial. May I ask you how to change the number of lines when you do horizontal split ? Also how to change the number of columns in vertical split? I think if it is possible in linux ubuntu, but I could not find out, and if possible would be great ...

grat thanks just gave up on tmux

How to delete the spliced window when you don't need it?

How do you get the green border between splitted screens?

Very useful for working with terminal an leave them persistent so we can dettach them and attach them in diferent devices.

Screen version ~>4.01 has the ability to split vertically. You can check your version by "screen --version"

GNU Screen does not support vertical split unless it's patched (some distros have a patched version of screen in their repositories, but it's rare.)

man screen -> A weird imagination is most useful to gain full advantage of all the features.

Is there a way to automate this?
And if so then can you make a video on it?

Ctrl + Shift + S + A didnt work for me. I can't split screens. Maybe outdated because this video is 2011?

What version of screen r you using? I could only manage to patch on versions 4.0.2 & 4.0.3. And I do make another turnaround such as commenting the lines where it tried to include sys/stropts.h. At the end I cannot get to see the vertical bar between two tabs when I split it vertically. pls help D:

try man screen it should list key bindings there.

Clear voice and diction. Well done.

I think the lines there are just reverse-video lines. So if your terminal window is setup for green on black text, then a reverse video line would be green with black text. So just set preferences on your terminal window according to your color tastes.

Thank you very much for this video, I find it very useful. Could you please consider adding the commands you issued to the video description also. Thanks.

tmux, terminal multiplexer also splits screens and has tabs, like a tabbed browser.(or Konsole) dunno about the ability to pick up a session though... i saw a friend use it, who was monitoring hundreds of processes

Hello metalx1000, How did you manage to configure screen in a way that you have this green line between two verticaly splitted windows? Is there some configuration in your .screenrc for this line which you can share?

Just do the key combination a few time. Also, look into a program called Terminator. I should have a video up on it in a few weeks.

Very cool video dude. Is there any way to get more than two vertical windows?

Thank you, very useful video!

@JoshuaStevenGrant: Not that I know of. I was using Screen the other day and it was working just fine.

@starxxwarsxxrules: I don't know what to tell you. I know it works. You've given me no info on your system. What version of screen are you running? What distro are you using?

Ctrl A and tab doesn't scwitch the curser for me

For reference, the vertical split has not been officially been released in a GNU screen version yet, but is available in the Git development tree. Red Hat and CentOS stick with the official release, while Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) cherry-pick this patch from the Git repo.

Arch Linux users can get screen vertical patch split for the AUR

Bash tip: instead of typing 'clear', just do ctrl+L

@brusdaar: I'm not sure. What distro are you running? May be you have an older version of Screen. That's just a guess.

@JumperFrank: We all have to start somewhere.

@metalx1000 thanks a lot. I'm just dying to find out... but the problem is i'm too big of a noob in scripting xD so thanks again :D

@John8pie: I have 2 more Screen Videos before I get to that, but I'll give you a hint. The settings are in the file "/etc/screenrc"

@67576856666478964567: Your not the first person to say that. I'll have to play with it.

Very much like "Terminator" without needing X to run. Good tip, thanks Kris!

@MrDavidium: That is what I meant. I didn't mean to say "Hold Down" if I did.

@MetalShreader: When I first started using Linux I was trying different Linux Distros pretty much weekly. At some point in that first year with Linux I tried BSD once. I don't remember which version of BSD it was. It was a liveCD. I never installed it. I remember booting it up and saying, "This Looks just like Linux, but it has a little Demon instead of Tux" I'll try it again someday. I love playing with new software.

@JumperFrank: That's a good question. If I find away I'll let you know.

Thanks so much for the video, but i was wondering... would it be possible to do this without using the short-keys? So let's say from a bash file or anything like that? thanks a lot :)