[wellylug] 'parking' a terminal

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <004801c37361$1f704820$fb32be9b at SYSTEMSLAPTOP1>, "Jamie Dobbs" writes
:
>OK, thanks for that. Hopefully someone who know how to use that command will
>be at Mondays meeting and can show me how it works (in case I can't work it
>out for myself!).

30 second tutorial:

Type "screen" to start a screen session, ie a terminal that can be
"detached".

Use ctrl-A ? to view the help screen/keyboard commands.

Use ctrl-A D to "detach" from the screen (leaving the things running,
but not visible).

Use "screen -r" to reattach to a previous detached screen (if there are
several, it'll list them and you can pick one).  This gets you back to
where you were, as if you'd never been away.

There's lots more cool stuff (including cycling between the screen
terminals you've got open, logging, cut'n'pasting, etc), but that should
be enough to get you started for your original need.

Ewen