screen: Monitor
10.6 Monitoring
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-- Command: activity message
(none)
When any activity occurs in a background window that is being
monitored, 'screen' displays a notification in the message line.
The notification message can be redefined by means of the
'activity' command. Each occurrence of '%' in MESSAGE is replaced
by the number of the window in which activity has occurred, and
each occurrence of '^G' is replaced by the definition for bell in
your termcap (usually an audible bell). The default message is
'Activity in window %n'
Note that monitoring is off for all windows by default, but can be
altered by use of the 'monitor' command ('C-a M').
-- Command: defmonitor state
(none)
Same as the 'monitor' command except that the default setting for
new windows is changed. Initial setting is 'off'.
-- Command: monitor [state]
('C-a M')
Toggles monitoring of the current window. When monitoring is
turned on and the affected window is switched into the background,
the activity notification message will be displayed in the status
line at the first sign of output, and the window will also be
marked with an '@' in the window-status display (⇒Windows).
Monitoring defaults to 'off' for all windows.
-- Command: silence [STATE|SEC]
('C-a _')
Toggles silence monitoring of windows. When silence is turned on
and an affected window is switched into the background, you will
receive the silence notification message in the status line after a
specified period of inactivity (silence). The default timeout can
be changed with the 'silencewait' command or by specifying a number
of seconds instead of 'on' or 'off'. Silence is initially off for
all windows.
-- Command: defsilence state
(none)
Same as the 'silence' command except that the default setting for
new windows is changed. Initial setting is 'off'.
-- Command: silencewait SECONDS
(none)
Define the time that all windows monitored for silence should wait
before displaying a message. Default is 30 seconds.