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
  • @cybersandwich
    6•3 months ago

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

    • @MigratingtoLemmyEnglish
      2•3 months ago

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

    • Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
      1•3 months ago

      @cybersandwich Works fine for me. Can you be more specific?

      Also, just to clarify, that was my opinion, and I’m not actually here to yuck anyone’s yum. If you prefer GNU Screen, go for it, and more power to you. I know people that _need_ the features in screen that tmux doesn’t have, and I hope both remain excellent choices.