Screen

Screen is a terminal multiplexer which can emulate multiple VT100/ANSI terminals on a single (physical) terminal. It features detaching and resuming of sessions, multi-user support, serial port support and lots more.

Websites:

• http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
• http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/screen/
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/screenie screenie (screen frontend, session handler)

Downloads:

• http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/

Dependencies:

• ncurses

Comments:

• According to Nico Golde, screen is maintained (at a bugfix-level only, though). The maintainers plan for roughly one release per year. --Uwe Hermann 00:39, 9 Aug 2005 (CEST)