[wellylug] 'parking' a terminal

[Jamie Dobbs]

Ewen McNeill wrote:

>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
>
>  
>
Perfect! That's exactly what I want to be able to do - thanks for the 
simple how-to, as I get more comfortable with it no doubt I will find 
out some of the other things I can do with the 'screen' command