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I'm looking for a way to split a tab (not all tabs) with GNU Screen. I currently have one tab per account / application. For an application I would like to see the log and have a bash at the same time.

I tried to create a new instance of screen in this tab but it creates a new tab...

Anyone can help me please ?

PS: What would I like: http://www.imagup.com/data/1168517677.html

To simulate, I created an additional tab

Zef
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  • Welcome to Stack Overflow. A good idea when posting questions is to add examples, too: it will be easier for users to answer. I strongly suggest you to post some screenshots, for example. – Giulio Muscarello Nov 25 '12 at 09:38
  • @GiulioMuscarello: I think this question contains a lot of useful information already. Also, not sure a screenshot would help here since it relates to a workflow. – Benjamin Bannier Nov 25 '12 at 09:40

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Assuming the control sequence for screen is the default Ctrla the current window can be split with Ctrla-S. Then switch to the new pane with Ctrla-TAB and get e.g. window 1 there with Ctrla-1.

Benjamin Bannier
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If you want to create a new screen instance within your already existing screen, you can run 

screen -S SOME-NAME

However, please note that such a screen-within-a-screen is difficult to manipulate because you need to escape all C-a bindings to forward them to the inner screen. For example, sending C-a to the inner screen is done with C-aa, and you can switch between two tabs using C-aaC-aa.

François Févotte
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