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screen: Layout

 
 9.9 Layout
 ==========
 
 Using regions, and perhaps a large enough terminal, you can give
 'screen' more of a desktop feel.  By being able to split regions
 horizontally or vertically, you can take advantage of the lesser used
 spaces of your terminal.  The catch to these splits has been that
 they're not kept between screen detachments and reattachments.
 
    Layouts will help organize your regions.  You can create one layout
 of four horizontal regions and then create a separate layout of regions
 in a two by two array.  The regions could contain the same windows, but
 they don't have to.  You can easily switch between layouts and keep them
 between detachments and reattachments.
 
    Note that there are several subcommands to 'layout'.
 
  -- Command: layout 'new' [title]
      (none)
      Create a new layout.  The screen will change to one whole region
      and be switched to the blank window.  From here, you build the
      regions and the windows they show as you desire.  The new layout
      will be numbered with the smallest available integer, starting with
      zero.  You can optionally give a title to your new layout.
      Otherwise, it will have a default title of 'layout'.  You can
      always change the title later by using the command 'layout title'.
 
  -- Command: layout 'remove' [n|title]
      (none)
      Remove, or in other words, delete the specified layout.  Either the
      number or the title can be specified.  Without either
      specification, 'screen' will remove the current layout.
 
      Removing a layout does not affect your set windows or regions.
 
  -- Command: layout 'next'
      (none)
      Switch to the next layout available
 
  -- Command: layout 'prev'
      (none)
      Switch to the previous layout available
 
  -- Command: layout 'select' [n|title]
      (none)
      Select the desired layout.  Either the number or the title can be
      specified.  Without either specification, 'screen' will prompt and
      ask which screen is desired.  To see which layouts are available,
      use the 'layout show' command.
 
  -- Command: layout 'show'
      (none)
      List on the message line the number(s) and title(s) of the
      available layout(s).  The current layout is flagged.
 
  -- Command: layout 'title' [title]
      (none)
      Change or display the title of the current layout.  A string given
      will be used to name the layout.  Without any options, the current
      title and number is displayed on the message line.
 
  -- Command: layout 'number' [n]
      (none)
      Change or display the number of the current layout.  An integer
      given will be used to number the layout.  Without any options, the
      current number and title is displayed on the message line.
 
  -- Command: layout 'attach' [title|':last']
      (none)
      Change or display which layout to reattach back to.  The default is
      ':last', which tells 'screen' to reattach back to the last used
      layout just before detachment.  By supplying a title, You can
      instruct 'screen' to reattach to a particular layout regardless
      which one was used at the time of detachment.  Without any options,
      the layout to reattach to will be shown in the message line.
 
  -- Command: layout 'save' [n|title]
      (none)
      Remember the current arrangement of regions.  When used, 'screen'
      will remember the arrangement of vertically and horizontally split
      regions.  This arrangement is restored when a 'screen' session is
      reattached or switched back from a different layout.  If the
      session ends or the 'screen' process dies, the layout arrangements
      are lost.  The 'layout dump' command should help in this siutation.
      If a number or title is supplied, 'screen' will remember the
      arrangement of that particular layout.  Without any options,
      'screen' will remember the current layout.
 
      Saving your regions can be done automatically by using the 'layout
      autosave' command.
 
  -- Command: layout 'autosave' ['on'|'off']
      (none)
      Change or display the status of automatically saving layouts.  The
      default is 'on', meaning when 'screen' is detached or changed to a
      different layout, the arrangement of regions and windows will be
      remembered at the time of change and restored upon return.  If
      autosave is set to 'off', that arrangement will only be restored to
      either to the last manual save, using 'layout save', or to when the
      layout was first created, to a single region with a single window.
      Without either an 'on' or an 'off', the current status is displayed
      on the message line.
 
  -- Command: layout 'dump' [filename]
      (none)
      Write to a file the order of splits made in the current layout.
      This is useful to recreate the order of your regions used in your
      current layout.  Only the current layout is recorded.  While the
      order of the regions are recorded, the sizes of those regions and
      which windows correspond to which regions are not.  If no filename
      is specified, the default is 'layout-dump', saved in the directory
      that the 'screen' process was started in.  If the file already
      exists, 'layout dump' will append to that file.  As an example:
           layout dump /home/user/.screenrc
      will save or append the layout to the user's '.screenrc' file.
 

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