From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: how can I invoke zsh via screen when logged in via ssh?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:22:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140122212244.GA20502@ruderich.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADjGqHsv+YdBYp7Q7Enp0kcmTWk_45AYKvzraFWyB4Y5YLdg0A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:54:02PM -0500, TJ Luoma wrote:
> 1) Would 'zsh' function normally when in screen(1) ?
Hello,
Of course. I use zsh almost exclusively from within GNU screen.
> 2) I've already noticed that emacs keys don't seem to work right, i.e.
> control+a does not jump to the beginning of the line, although
> control+e jumps to the end of the line. Should I make some adjustment
> to `bindkeys` or anything else?
GNU screen uses Ctrl-a as "prefix" for all its commands. To send
a "real" Ctrl-a to the process running in the screen window, use
Ctrl-a a.
> 3) What's the 'best' way to invoke screen(1) from .zshenv ? I
> already have this:
>
> [...]
This looks a little fragile. To check for a SSH session use one
of the SSH_* variables set by sshd, e.g. SSH_CONNECTION or
SSH_CLIENT.
if [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]; then
# inside a SSH session
fi
> So I was going to change it to:
>
> [snip]
>
> which would, I believe, resume an existing `screen` session if one
> existed, but would otherwise just launch `screen` anew.
My current solution to automatically launch a GNU screen session
or connect to a running one looks like this:
if [[ $TERM != dumb && $TERM != linux && -z $STY && -z $TMUX ]]; then
# Get running detached sessions.
session=$(screen -list | grep 'Detached' | awk '{ print $1; exit }')
# Create a new session if none is running.
if [[ -z $session ]]; then
exec screen
# Reattach to a running session.
else
exec screen -r $session
fi
fi
This must be added to the ~/.zshrc on the server.
You can easily adapt this for your setup. Just change the
condition inside [[ ... ]] to something like
[[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION && -z $STY && -z $TMUX ]]
This condition is true if inside a ssh connection and neither GNU
screen nor tmux is already running.
> ps - bonus question: anyone know how to tell screen(1) to _not_ show
> its welcome message every time it launches?
man screen ;-)
Add "startup_message off" to your ~/.screenrc.
Regards
Simon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-22 19:54 TJ Luoma
2014-01-22 21:22 ` Simon Ruderich [this message]
2014-01-22 23:48 ` TJ Luoma
2014-01-23 6:49 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2014-01-23 6:20 ` nyuszika7h
2014-01-24 6:12 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-01-24 12:40 ` Richard Hartmann
2014-01-24 16:23 ` Axel Beckert
2014-01-24 19:50 ` Christoph (Stucki) von Stuckrad
2014-01-24 14:20 ` lilydjwg
2014-01-25 17:51 ` Thorsten Kampe
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