====== zombie ======

===== Default Keybindings =====

None.

===== Syntax =====

  * ''**zombie** [//keys//[onerror]]''

===== Description =====

Per default, ''screen'' windows are removed from the window list as soon
as the window's process (e.g. shell) exits.  When a string of two keys is
specified to the ''zombie'' command, "dead" windows will remain in the
list.  The ''[[kill]]'' command may be used to remove such a window.
Pressing the first specified key in the dead window has the same effect.
When pressing the second key, ''screen'' will attempt to resurrect the
window.  The process that was initially running in the window will be
launched again.  Calling ''zombie'' without parameters will clear the
zombie setting, thus making windows disappear when their process exits.

As the zombie-setting is manipulated globally for all windows, this
command should only be called ''[[defzombie]]''.  Until we need this as a
per window setting, the commands ''zombie'' and ''[[defzombie]]'' are
synonymous.

Optionally you can put the word "onerror" after the keys.  This will cause
screen to monitor exit status of the process running in the window.  If it
exits normally ('0'), the window disappears.  Any other exit value causes
the window to become a zombie.

===== Examples =====

None yet.

===== See Also =====

  * ''[[defzombie]]''
  * [[:Window Management]]