Re: screen inside screen (via ssh)

[jmartin]

Your command key will be caught by the first instance of screen that sees 
it. In this case, if you log into screen-A, and in one window ssh to and 
log into screen-B, screen-A will get the command escape.

With screen you can tell it to pass the control key to the window by 
(assuming you haven't modified yours) typing ^a then hitting a. That will 
pass ^a to the application running in the window, in this case, ssh & 
screen-B. So if you wanted to create a new window on screen-B, you would 
do ^a a c.

I recommend if you do this regularly to set the command escape key to 
something different for one of the screens in .screenrc. i.e.:

escape ^Ww

Hope I didn't confuse you.

-Jon





On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 address@hidden wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> when you run screen on machine A and log from there in to machine B (via
> ssh), can you
>
> a) if screen is already running on machine B, choose which screen should
> listen to your commands, the one on A or on B? for example, switching
> windows;
>
> b) if screen is not running on B, create a new screen session on B and not a
> new window on A?
>
> There is probably no real difference between a) and b), but anyway.
>
> Thanks for your thoughts!
> Heide
>
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