From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: blinux-list at redhat.com (Linux for blind general discussion) Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 17:06:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: screen in Ubintu shell question? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: List-Id: Hi, no idea what the gnu is about..at all. still, I discovered my error. My source for the command added a dash, which I was typing before the letter h. Once I stopped doing that the hardcopy process began, allowing me to capture. Thanks, problem solved. Kare On Sun, 2 Oct 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > On 2022-10-02 16:33, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: >> There is a reason why I want to use links the chain here, documenting a >> dreamhost issue for dreamhost instead of shellworld. >> Still your wisdom is sound. >> now, if I can just get the hardcopy creation process to work. > > It should work with any interactive program that waits for > user-interaction. While it's waiting, you hit GNU-screen's prefix > key (control+a) and then the letter "h" to indicate you want a > hardcopy of the screen. It should save that to a file in the current > directory called "hardcopy.0" (I think if you do more than one of > them, it numbers them sequentially). You can continue to use the > program as normal (possibly taking multiple screen-captures as you > perform various actions) and then when you quit, GNU screen quits > too. > > Alternatively, you can launch GNU screen, which puts you in a > sub-shell inside screen. You can then launch multiple programs > (either each in their own screen window, or serially) just as you > normally would, using the h to capture a hardcopy of the > screen to a file. > > -Tim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list at redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >