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GNU Screen 5.0 released (savannah.gnu.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

The 5.0.0 release includes the following changes to the previous release 4.9.1:

Rewritten authentication mechanism
Add escape %T to show current tty for window
Add escape %O to show number of currently open windows
Use wcwdith() instead of UTF-8 hard-coded tables
New commands:
- auth [on|off] Provides password protection
- status [top|up|down|bottom] [left|right] The status window by default is in bottom-left corner. This command can move status messages to any corner of the screen.
- truecolor [on|off]
- multiinput Input to multiple windows at the same time
Removed commands:
- time
- debug
- password
- maxwin
- nethack
Fixes:
- Screen buffers ESC keypresses indefinitely
- Crashes after passing through a zmodem transfer
- Fix double -U issue

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Removed commands: nethack

What? screen had nethack builtin?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And what did it do? 👀

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I thought screen was abandonware after RHEL removed it in 2019 and recommended tmux instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Me too! This is certainly news to me!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

@JRepin For most purposes, I think tmux is the better software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I have a lot of trouble with the window/pane management. Moving panes to a different window is rather difficult. The server>session>window>pane hierarchy also seems way too deep for my humble needs.

The fact that the active window syncs between sessions is also really odd. Why can't I look at different windows on different devices?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless you copy and paste. In which case just stab yourself in the eye of you are using tmux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Agreed, tmux copy-pasting is so horrendous I'd rather open a new window, less the file and copy with my mouse