neercs – like GNU screen but much more

Last Updated on July 12, 2021

neercs is a replacement for the screen utility with a raft of additional functionality besides being able to detach a session from a terminal. This app is in an early stage of development.

Features include:

• Grabbing a process that you forgot to start inside neercs.
• Great screensaver.
• 3D rotating cube to switch between full screen terms.
• Real time thumbnails of your shells.
• Special effects when closing a window.
• Various window layouts.
• Keyboard shortcuts:
  • Next window.
  • Previous window.
  • Switch window manager.
  • Create new window.
  • Thumbnails.
  • Detach.
  • Close window and kill associated process.
  • Dump screen into a file.

Website: caca.zoy.org/wiki/neercs
Support: Documentation
Developer: Sam Hocevar, Jean-Yves Lamoureux, Pascal Terjan
License: WTFPL v2

neercs is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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