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Manage terminal sessions with screen

Manage terminal sessions with screen - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux Tips

Manage terminal sessions with screen

- [Narrator] When you're working in a terminal session, you can send tasks into the background and bring them back again if you want to switch between them. But on Linux you can install a program called Screen that takes multi-tasking one step further. Screen lets us have more than one, well, screen, in the same terminal session. What's that mean? Well, think about Alt + Tab on the Linux or Windows desktop, or Command + Tab on a Mac. You can switch between the interfaces for applications that are running to use one and then the next, keeping everything else running as well. Or you can think of it like switching virtual desktops on a desktop manager which supports that. Using Screen is much the same but for text interface. Screen uses key combinations to switch between windows in a given session. And you can disconnect or detach from a screen session, and that session stays running. As long as the system doesn't restart, or as long as Screen doesn't get killed, you can then come back…

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