From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Duffy Subject: Re: Newbie, struggling with graphics and qemu monitor Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:49:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4A4A6C39.7070504@messageone.com> References: <4A4A3AD5.5010302@redhat.com> <4A4A40D4.6060506@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: michael.jinks@gmail.com To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43639 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754766AbZF3TtL (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:49:11 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MLjKL-0004ZL-T7 for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:49:13 +0000 Received: from 143.166.197.6 ([143.166.197.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:49:13 +0000 Received: from Charles_Duffy by 143.166.197.6 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:49:13 +0000 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Michael Jinks wrote: > Given the way qemu and screen interact, using the same keystrokes to > initiate commands, it would be really useful to have some other way to > detach and re-attach to a kvm guest on the fly. It's pretty easy to configure screen to use a different set of keystrokes. I find that ctrl+` is easy to type, interferes with far fewer applications than ctrl+a, and also makes it easier to work with nested screen sessions running on remote systems. From my ~/.screenrc: escape ^``