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Linux Redhat "Screen" won't detach

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http://serverfault.com – I've got a screen set up, I access it like this 'screen -r' it works fine, but when I go to put it in the background, I've previously used 'Ctrl a+d' but every time I try that now it puts '^A' in terminal instead and it won't detach :( I've tried using Coda 2 rather than terminal but I'm still getting the same issue. (HowTos)

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Submitted by u85500 on 06/05/2012 – Made popular on 06/05/2012

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Overview of UTF8 screen re-attachment issues.

Problem:

Creating a screen that uses UTF8 works perfectly until re-attaching said screen session.

Steps:

ssh remothost screen -U -S ttytter [detach screen] [exit ssh] xterm -class 'xterm-ttytter' -geometry 175x20 \ -title 'ttytter' -e ssh -t remotehost "screen -dU -r ttytter"

Details

I am a really big fan of ttytter and have been using it for

The problem is that the process is not a job inside of my active shell (as I've logged in from remote because my X-system has crashed), meaning: I guess disown, nohup, CTRL+Z & bg, screen et al. will not work.

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