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GNU Screen

screen

A full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes.

Detected by screen | macOS, Linux |www.gnu.org

Sync it screen.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

GNU Screen in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

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bind k focus up

# This machine's paths: the shell binary and the directory new windows start in.

shell /opt/homebrew/bin/fishmachine-local

chdir /Users/octocat/srcmachine-local

# A crypt(3) hash screen asks for before a detached session may be resumed.

password FAKEhashJ0000000000000

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

password

Lifted into your secret store; the rest of the file syncs.

· ~/.screen/ Exclude

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/screen.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "screen"

name = "GNU Screen"

homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/"

description = "A full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes."

detect = ["screen"]

platforms = ["macos", "linux"]

# screen(1) FILES lists "$SCREENRC" then "$HOME/.screenrc", "Read in after

# /usr/local/etc/screenrc"; the body says the same — "The user specific

# screenrc file is searched in $SCREENRC, then $HOME/.screenrc." The global

# file is under /usr/local/etc and is not a dotfile.

paths = ["~/.screenrc"]

# Same page: "The socket directory defaults either to $HOME/.screen or simply

# to /tmp/screens". Those are live per-session sockets plus the .termcap screen

# writes there — machine state, and useless anywhere else.

exclude = ["~/.screen/"]

# No whole-file secret: .screenrc is a keybinding and layout file. The one

# credential it can carry is lifted out below.

secret = []

# screen(1), `password [crypted_pw]`: "Present a crypted password in your

# '.screenrc' file and screen will ask for it, whenever someone attempts to

# resume a detached session." It is a crypt(3) hash of the user's password, so

# it never travels as plaintext config.

[[secret_paths]]

file = "~/.screenrc"

match = { prefix = ["password"] }

# `shell` names the absolute path of the program screen starts in a new window

# — /bin/bash on one box, /opt/homebrew/bin/fish on the next — and `chdir` is

# an absolute starting directory on this machine. Everything else in the file

# (bindings, hardstatus, defscrollback, altscreen) is preference that should

# travel. The trailing space on "shell " keeps it off `shelltitle`, which is

# such a preference.

# Both are kept for rebuilding this machine and handed to no other. `chdir` is

# the user's own choice of where a window opens. `shell` looks like a platform

# path, but what it records is which program *this box* has installed, not what

# every machine of its OS and architecture has: send /opt/homebrew/bin/fish to

# a same-class Mac without fish and the result is not a wrong value, it is a

# screenrc that cannot open a window.

[[machine_lines]]

file = "~/.screenrc"

match = { prefix = ["shell ", "chdir"] }

scope = "backup"

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/screen. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page. None of them splits shell and chdir for you — that part is Otty’s own sync, or a template you write by hand.