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====== Monitoring Windows ====== ''screen'' can monitor your windows, either for silence or activity, notifying when the condition occurs. This is useful for all sorts of things, including waiting for a lengthy compile to finish or watching log files. ===== Basics ===== Use ''[[commands:monitor|C-a M]]'' to start monitoring a window for activity. ''[[commands:silence|C-a _]]'' monitors for 30 seconds of silence. Using the appropriate key combination a second time will turn off monitoring. ===== Extras ===== There are a couple of configuration commands that can be used to tweak the monitoring settings. ''[[commands:silencewait]]'' will change the number of seconds of silence that will trigger the monitor. ''[[commands:activity]]'' sets the message that screen shows when a monitored window has activity. [//There doesn't seem to be a way to set the silence message. Is this correct? //] The message uses the standard [[man:string escapes]], as well as replacing '^G' with an ASCII BEL (so the terminal will beep). Setting the timout for silence monitoring affects all windows. There's no way to have different timeouts for different windows. ===== Keybindings ===== * ''[[commands:monitor|C-a M]]'' - Start/stop monitoring window for activity. * ''[[commands:silence|C-a _]]'' - Start/stop monitoring window for inactivity. ===== Commands ===== * ''[[commands:activity]]'' - Set message displayed by screen when a monitored window shows activity. * ''[[commands:defmonitor]]'' - Set the default monitoring status for new windows. * ''[[commands:defsilence]]'' - Set the default silence monitoring status for new windows. * ''[[commands:monitor]]'' - Set the monitoring status for the current window. * ''[[commands:silence]]'' - Set the silence monitoring status for the current window. * ''[[commands:silencewait]]'' - Set the silence timeout for all windows. ===== Examples ===== Change the activity message to include a timestamp and window title, as well as beep. In practice it will read something like "12:37 activity -> 7$ zsh": activity "%c activity -> %n%f %t^G"