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It resets all previously set filters and allows any settings listed below it to be applied to all hardware. It is usually a good idea to add an [all] filter at the end of groups of filtered settings to avoid unintentionally combining filters see below. These are particularly useful for defining different kernel , initramfs , and cmdline settings, as the Pi 1 and Pi 2 require different kernels. They can also be useful to define different overclocking settings, as the Pi 1 and Pi 2 have different default speeds.

For example, to define separate initramfs images for each:. The [none] filter prevents any settings that follow from being applied to any hardware. Note that these settings apply only at boot, so the monitor must be connected at boot time and the Pi must be able to read its EDID information to find the correct name. Hotplugging a different monitor into the Pi after boot will not select different settings. Sometimes settings should only be applied to a single specific Pi, even if you swap the SD card to a different one.

Examples include licence keys and overclocking settings although the licence keys already support SD card swapping in a different way.

An alternative variable:index syntax is available on all port-specific HDMI commands. You could use the following, which is the same as the previous example:. Filters of the same type replace each other, so [pi2] overrides [pi1] , because it is not possible for both to be true at once.

Filters of different types can be combined simply by listing them one after the other, for example:. Use the [all] filter to reset all previous filters and avoid unintentionally combining different filter types. The remaining groups of config. Instead memory is allocated dynamically within Linux. On legacy kernels, the memory allocated to the GPU is used for display, 3D, Codec and camera purposes as well as some basic firmware housekeeping.

The maximums specified below assume you are using all these features. The minimum value is 16 , however this disables certain GPU features. It is ignored if memory size is not MB. It is ignored if memory size is smaller than 1GB. This parameter can be used to force a Raspberry Pi to limit its memory capacity: specify the total amount of RAM, in megabytes, you wish the Raspberry Pi to use. This value will be clamped between a minimum of MB, and a maximum of the total memory installed on the board.

Default value on BCM is 0. The standard Pi kernel. Hardware decoding of additional codecs on the Pi 3 and earlier models can be enabled by purchasing a licence that is locked to the CPU serial number of your Raspberry Pi. This enables you to swap the same SD card between the different Pis without having to edit config.

On the Pi Zero, there is an unpopulated header labelled "TV" which outputs composite video. The picture will be displayed in monochrome, but it may appear sharper.

On the Raspberry Pi 4, composite output is disabled by default, due to the way the internal clocks are interrelated and allocated. Because composite video requires a very specific clock, setting that clock to the required speed on the Pi 4 means that other clocks connected to it are detrimentally affected, which slightly slows down the entire system.

Since composite video is a less commonly used function, we decided to disable it by default to prevent this system slowdown. As described above, this will detrimentally affect performance to a small degree. In order to support dual 4k displays, the Raspberrry Pi 4 has updated video hardware , which imposes minor restrictions on the modes supported.

This is the same as setting the following parameters:. It requires this unusual value to ensure that it is not triggered accidentally.

More information is available on the forums. This means ALSA will default to the analogue audio headphone jack. No CEC functions will be supported. The default is Raspberry Pi. Note, this is not the same as the frame rate. It specifies the maximum frequency that a valid mode can have, thereby culling out higher frequency modes.

So for example, if you wish to disable all 4K modes, you could specify a maximum frequency of , since all 4K modes have frequencies greater than this. If this option is not set or set to 0, the HDMI output is blanked but not switched off. In order to mimic the behaviour of other computers, you can set the HDMI output to switch off as well by setting this option to 1: the attached display will go into a low power standby mode.

Configures the signal strength of the HDMI interface. The minimum value is 0 and the maximum is The default value for the original Model B and A is 2. If you are seeing HDMI issues speckling, interference then try 7. Very long HDMI cables may need up to 11 , but values this high should not be used unless absolutely necessary. Format mode numbers are derived from the CTA specification.

To set a custom display mode not listed here, see more information on the forums. Pixel doubling and quadrupling indicates a higher clock rate, with each pixel repeated two or four times respectively. Your HDMI monitor may only support a limited set of formats.

To find out which formats are supported, use the following method:. The edid. Note that this simply creates the mode group 2 mode In order to make the Pi use this by default, you must add some additional settings. The LCD can still be used by choosing its display number from supported applications, for example, omxplayer.

This is to allow the use of third-party LCD displays using the parallel display interface. In other words, composite output mode will be used, even if an HDMI monitor is detected. Increase this value if the text flows off the left edge of the screen; decrease it if there is a black border between the left edge of the screen and the text.

Increase this value if the text flows off the right edge of the screen; decrease it if there is a black border between the right edge of the screen and the text. Increase this value if the text flows off the top edge of the screen; decrease it if there is a black border between the top edge of the screen and the text. Increase this value if the text flows off the bottom edge of the screen; decrease it if there is a black border between the bottom edge of the screen and the text. NOTE: this feature is generally not recommended: it can reduce image quality because all layers on the display will be scaled by the GPU.

Disabling overscan on the display itself is the recommended option to avoid images being scaled twice by the GPU and the display. The default is the display width minus the total horizontal overscan.

The default is the display height minus the total vertical overscan. In a system with multiple displays, using the legacy pre-KMS graphics driver, this forces a specific internal display device to be the first Linux framebuffer i.

This configuration entry sets the maximum number of firmware framebuffers that can be created. Valid options are 0, 1, and 2. Generally in most cases it is safe to set this to 2, as framebuffers will only be created when an attached device is actually detected.

Setting this value to 0 can be used to reduce memory requirements when used in headless mode as it will prevent any framebuffers from being allocated. This is used as a manufacturing test; the default value is 0. The Screen Configuration utility provides display rotations for this driver. By default, the firmware parses the EDID of any HDMI attached display, picks an appropriate video mode, then passes the resolution and frame rate of the mode, along with overscan parameters, to the Linux kernel via settings on the kernel command line.

In rare circumstances, this can have the effect of choosing a mode that is not in the EDID, and may be incompatible with the device. Forces dispmanx composition to be done offline in two offscreen framebuffers.

This can allow more dispmanx elements to be composited, but is slower and may limit screen framerate to typically 30fps. In order to support dual displays, and modes up to 4k60, the Raspberry Pi 4 has updated the HDMI composition pipeline hardware in a number of ways.

One of the major changes is that it generates 2 output pixels for every clock cycle. Every HDMI mode has a list of timings that control all the parameters around sync pulse durations. These are typically defined via a pixel clock, and then a number of active pixels, a front porch, sync pulse, and back porch for each of the horizontal and vertical directions.

Running everything at 2 pixels per clock means that the Pi4 can not support a timing where any of the horizontal timings are not divisible by 2. Otherwise the default background color is used. The first argument sets the encoding of the current window. Each window can emulate a different encoding. The optional second parameter overwrites the encoding of the connected terminal.

It should never be needed as screen uses the locale setting to detect the encoding. See Special Capabilities. If utf8 is enabled, the strings sent to the window will be UTF-8 encoded and vice versa. Omitting the parameter toggles the setting. Initial setting is the encoding taken from the terminal. Shows current default if called without argument.

If cjkwidth is on screen interprets them as double full width characters. If off then they are seen as one cell half width characters. For those confined to a hardware terminal, these commands provide a cut and paste facility more powerful than those provided by most windowing systems. This allows you to copy text from the current window and its history into the paste buffer. In this mode a vi -like full screen editor is active, with controls as outlined below.

When no parameter is given, the state is toggled. To access and use the contents in the scrollback buffer, use the copy command. See Copy. Defaults to The default scrollback is lines. Use info to view the current setting. If your terminal sends characters, that cause you to abort copy mode, then this command may help by binding these characters to do nothing.

As shown in this example, multiple keys can be assigned to one function in a single statement. H , M and L move the cursor to the leftmost column of the top, center or bottom line of the window. Default: half screenful.

Note that Emacs-style movement keys can be specified by a. The copy range is specified by setting two marks. The text between these marks will be highlighted. If mousetrack is set to on , marks can also be set using left mouse click. Any command in copy mode can be prefixed with a number by pressing digits 0…9 which is taken as a repeat count.

Default is off. Without any options, the state of ignorecase is toggled. There are, however, some keys that act differently here from in vi. Vi does not allow to yank rectangular blocks of text, but screen does. If no repeat count is given, both default to the current cursor position. Example: Try this on a rather full text screen:. This moves one to the middle line of the screen, moves in 20 columns left, marks the beginning of the paste buffer, sets the left column, moves 5 columns down, sets the right column, and then marks the end of the paste buffer.

Now try:. J joins lines. It toggles between 4 modes: lines separated by a newline character , lines glued seamless, lines separated by a single space or comma separated lines. Note that you can prepend the newline character with a carriage return character, by issuing a set crlf on. Thus the contents of the paste buffer will not be overwritten, but appended to. This example demonstrates how to dump the whole scrollback buffer to that file:. You can use this to adjust an already placed mark.

C-a ] , C-a C-] Write the concatenated contents of the specified registers to the stdin stream of the current window.

If no parameter is specified the user is prompted to enter a single register. The paste buffer can be filled with the copy , history and readbuf commands. Other registers can be filled with the register , readreg and paste commands. If paste is called with a second argument, the contents of the specified registers is pasted into the named destination register rather than the window. Note, that paste uses a wide variety of resources: Usually both, a current window and a current display are required.

But whenever a second argument is specified no current window is needed. When the source specification only contains registers not the paste buffer then there need not be a current display terminal attached , as the registers are a global resource.

The paste buffer exists once for every user. This is like the paste command, but with much less overhead. Without a paramter, screen will prompt for a string to stuff. You cannot paste large buffers with the stuff command. It is most useful for key bindings. See Bindkey. Tell screen to include font information in the paste buffer. The default is not to do so. This command is especially useful for multi character fonts like kanji.

If the slowpaste value is nonzero text is written character by character. With two arguments it reads the contents of the named file into the register, just as readbuf reads the screen-exchange file into the paste buffer.

You can tell screen the encoding of the file via the -e option. If no argument is given you are prompted for a register name.

This command can be used to bind multiple actions to a single key. The encoding of the string can be specified via the -e option. If no file is specified, the screen-exchange filename is used. This is thought of as a primitive means of communication between screen users on the same host. If an encoding is specified the paste buffer is recoded on the fly to match the encoding. For example, csh has the command!! Thus you have a crude command history made up by the visible window and its scrollback buffer.

This pattern is basically a three character sequence representing stdin, stdout and stderr of newcommand. A dot. An exclamation mark!

A colon : combines both. Invoking exec without arguments shows name and arguments of the currently running subprocess in this window. Only one subprocess can be running per window. When a subprocess is running the kill command will affect it instead of the windows process.

Only one subprocess a time can be running in each window. Each drawing shows the digits 2, 1, 0 representing the three file descriptors of newcommand. All of the above are equivalent. Creates another shell in the same window, while the original shell is still running. This is a useful command, when a screen window is directly connected to a serial line that needs to be configured.

Both are equivalent. This adds a pager to the window output. Less versions newer than fail miserably here; good old pg still works. Sends window output to both, the user and the sed command. The sed inserts an additional bell character oct. You may disagree with some of the default bindings I know I do. The bind command allows you to redefine them to suit your preferences. The argument can also be quoted, if you like. If no further argument is given, any previously established binding for this key is removed.

The command argument can be any command see Command Index. If a command class is specified via the -c option, the key is bound for the specified class. Use the command command to activate a class. Command classes can be used to create multiple command keys or multi-character bindings. By default, most suitable commands are bound to one or more keys see Default Key Bindings ; for instance, the command to create a new window is bound to C-c and c.

The bind command can be used to redefine the key bindings and to define new bindings. This can be useful when screen is used solely for its detaching abilities, such as when letting a console application run as a daemon.

This is equivalent to the command escape except that it is useful for multiuser sessions only. In a multiuser session escape changes the command character of the calling user, where defescape changes the default command characters for users that will be added later.

C-a a Send the command character C-a to the process in the current window. It is probably only useful for key bindings. See Bind , See Bindkey. Displays a help screen showing you all the key bindings. The first pages list all the internal commands followed by their bindings. Subsequent pages will display the custom commands, one command per key.

All other characters are ignored. See Default Key Bindings. Every entry in one of the tables tells screen how to react if a certain sequence of characters is encountered. See Input Translation for a list of default key bindings. Some keys on a VT terminal can send a different string if application mode is turned on e. Such keys have two entries in the translation table.

One cannot turn off the timing if a termcap capability is used. Timeout is disabled so that users can type slowly. Make the F11 not F1! The default timeout is ms. Maptimeout with no arguments shows the current setting. Each window has a flow-control setting that determines how screen deals with the XON and XOFF characters and perhaps the interrupt character. When flow-control is turned off, screen ignores the XON and XOFF characters, which allows the user to send them to the current program by simply typing them useful for the emacs editor, for instance.

You can still send these characters to the current program, but you must use the appropriate two-character screen commands typically C-a q xon and C-a s xoff. By default the windows are set to automatic flow-switching. If the tty driver does not support TIOCPKT, screen tries to determine the right mode based on the current setting of the application keypad — when it is enabled, flow-control is turned off and visa versa.

Of course, you can still manipulate flow-control manually when needed. This causes the output that screen has accumulated from the interrupted program to be flushed. Give each mode a try, and use whichever mode you find more comfortable. Screen demands the most out of your terminal so that it can perform its VT emulation most efficiently. These functions provide means for tweaking the termcap entries for both your physical terminal and the one simulated by screen.

But if your terminal lacks certain capabilities the emulation may not be complete. In these cases screen has to tell the applications that some of the features are missing. But if you do a rlogin on another machine or your machine supports only terminfo this method fails.

Because of this screen offers a way to deal with these cases. Here is how it works:. When screen tries to figure out a terminal name for itself, it first looks for an entry named screen. The actual set of capabilities supported by the virtual terminal depends on the capabilities supported by the physical terminal.

However, a minimum number of capabilities must be supported by a terminal in order to run screen ; namely scrolling, clear screen, and direct cursor addressing in addition, screen does not run on hardcopy terminals or on terminals that over-strike. Note that screen honors the terminfo command if the system uses the terminfo database rather than termcap. This allows an application to make use of, for instance, the VT graphics character set or national character sets.

This allows a user to have an application in one window sending output to a printer connected to the terminal, while all other windows are still active the printer port is enabled and disabled again for each chunk of output.

As a side-effect, programs running in different windows can send output to the printer simultaneously. Data sent to the printer is not displayed in the window. The "alternate screen" capability is not enabled by default. Set the altscreen. Write the termcap entry for the virtual terminal optimized for the currently active window to the file. For terminfo based systems you will need to run a converter like captoinfo and then compile the entry with tic.

Plus, you can optionally customize the termcap generated for the windows. You have to place these commands in one of the screenrc startup files, as they are meaningless once the terminal emulator is booted.

If your system uses the terminfo database rather than termcap, screen will understand the terminfo command, which has the same effects as the termcap command. Two separate commands are provided, as there are subtle syntactic differences, e. Note that the termcap names of the capabilities should also be used with the terminfo command. In many cases, where the arguments are valid in both terminfo and termcap syntax, you can use the command termcapinfo , which is just a shorthand for a pair of termcap and terminfo commands with identical arguments.

The first argument specifies which terminal s should be affected by this definition. Specify a null string to leave this unchanged e. The second optional tweak modifies all the window termcaps, and should contain definitions that screen understands see Virtual Terminal.

You must specify Z0 and Z1 in your termcap to use the width-changing commands. See Virtual Terminal , for the details of the screen terminal emulation. See Termcap , for more information on termcap definitions. The following table describes all terminal capabilities that are recognized by screen and are not in the termcap manual see Termcap.

It is often not possible to place these capabilities in the terminfo database. This capability has the desired width and height as arguments. Same as flow off. See Obuflimit. This property is set per display, not per window. Initial setting is off. Note that you can use the special AN terminal capability if you want to have a terminal type dependent setting.

The default value is If you have a fast display like xterm , you can set it to some higher value. If no argument is specified, the current setting is displayed. Initial setting is bytes. Note that you can use the special OL terminal capability if you want to have a terminal type dependent limit. Screen has a powerful mechanism to translate characters to arbitrary strings depending on the current font and terminal type.

Use this feature if you want to work with a common standard character set say ISOlatin1 even on terminals that scatter the more unusual characters over several national language font pages. A template mechanism is used, as most of the time the codes have a lot in common for example strings to switch to and from another charset. Screen displays informational messages and other diagnostics in a message line at the bottom of the screen. If your terminal has a status line defined in its termcap, screen will use this for displaying its messages, otherwise the last line of the screen will be temporarily overwritten and output will be momentarily interrupted.

The message line is automatically removed after a few seconds delay, but it can also be removed early on terminals without a status line by beginning to type. The message line facility can be used by an application running in the current window by means of the ANSI Privacy message control sequence. For instance, from within the shell, try something like:. The first form toggles whether screen will use the hardware status line to display messages. If you prepend the word always to the type e.

The third form specifies the contents of the hardstatus line. You can customize this to any string you like including string escapes see String Escapes. If you leave out the argument string , the current string is displayed. C-a m , C-a C-m Repeat the last message displayed in the message line.

Defaults to 1 second. Defaults to 5 seconds. C-a h Writes out the currently displayed image to the file file , or, if no filename is specified, to hardcopy. If the option -h is specified, dump also the contents of the scrollback buffer. If no parameter is given, the logging state is toggled. The session log is appended to the previous contents of the file if it already exists.

The current contents and the contents of the scrollback history are not included in the session log. The second form changes the number of seconds screen will wait before flushing the logfile buffer to the file-system. The default value is 10 seconds. When output continues and more than another two minutes have passed, a second time-stamp is added to document the restart of the output. You can change this timeout with the second form of the command.

This section describes commands which are only useful in the. Next: sleep , Up: Startup [ Contents ][ Index ]. Typically installed in a global screenrc. See also sleep. Echo is also useful for online checking of environment variables. Keyboard activity will end the sleep. It may be used to give users a chance to read the messages output by echo. Previous: sleep , Up: Startup [ Contents ][ Index ]. If the first parameter describes a non-unique context, the command will be executed multiple times.

The command is executed once for each display of the selected user s. Displays are named after the ttys they attach. If identifier has a or nothing appended it is matched against window numbers and titles.

Note that on the affected display s a short message will describe what happened. Note that the character works as a comment introducer when it is preceded by whitespace. Permission is checked for the initiator of the at command, not for the owners of the affected display s. Caveat: When matching against windows, the command is executed at least once per window.

Commands that change the internal arrangement of windows like other may be called again. In shared windows the command will be repeated for each attached display.

Beware, when issuing toggle commands like login! Some commands e. These commands may not work correctly under at looping over windows. For non-Posix systems the time interval is rounded up to full seconds. Most useful if a character device is attached to the window rather than a shell process see Window Types. The maximum duration of a break signal is limited to 15 seconds. This command should affect the current window only. But it still behaves identical to defbreaktype.

This will be changed in the future. Calling breaktype with no parameter displays the break setting for the current window. The third, TCSBRK , blocks the complete screen session for the duration of the break, but it may be the only way to generate long breaks.

This is not only system dependent, this also differs between serial board drivers. Calling defbreaktype with no parameter displays the current setting.

Debug output from attacher processes can only be turned off once and forever. C-a , Display the disclaimer page. This is done whenever screen is started without options, which should be often enough.

When you are familiar with the game nethack , you may enjoy the nethack-style messages which will often blur the facts a little, but are much funnier to read. Anyway, standard messages often tend to be unclear as well. Tell screen how to deal with user interfaces displays that cease to accept output.

If nonblock is off this is the default screen waits until the display restarts to accept the output. If nonblock is on , screen waits until the timeout is reached on is treated as 1s.

If at some time it restarts to accept characters, screen will unblock the display and redisplay the updated window contents. Same as the nonblock command except that the default setting for displays is changed. If the given number n is already used by another window, both windows exchange their numbers.

If no argument is specified, the current window number and title is shown. C-a t , C-a C-t Uses the message line to display the time of day, the host name, and the load averages over 1, 5, and 15 minutes if this is available on your system.

For window-specific information use info see Info. If a string is specified, it changes the format of the time report like it is described in the string escapes chapter see String Escapes.

If verbose is switched on, the command name is echoed, whenever a window is created or resurrected from zombie state. Without a parameter, the current setting is shown. The kill command may be used to remove the window. Pressing the first key in the dead window has the same effect. Pressing the second key, however, screen will attempt to resurrect the window. The process that was initially running in the window will be launched again. Calling zombie without parameters will clear the zombie setting, thus making windows disappear when the process terminates.

Optionally you can put the word onerror after the keys. This will cause screen to monitor exit status of the process running in the window. Any other exit value causes the window to become a zombie.

It only works if zombie keys are defined via zombie command. Printcmd without an argument displays the current setting. Warning: Be careful with this command! If other user have write access to your terminal, they will be able to fire off print commands. See the chapter about string escapes see String Escapes for the syntax of the modifiers. If no modifier is given, the current one is deleted. See the chapter about string escapes see String Escapes for the syntax of the modifier.

Screen understands two pseudo-attributes, i stands for high-intensity foreground color and I for high-intensity background color. If setsid is turned off , this is not done anymore and all windows will be in the same process group as the screen backend process. This also breaks job-control, so be careful. The default is on , of course. This command is probably useful only in rare circumstances. The number can be increased only when there are no existing windows. The specified lifespan is the number of seconds the output is considered valid.

Otherwise, if your console did not turn on normally, and the screen remained black with no backlight, your Switch is in RCM. Jigs hold a wire in place so the correct pins 10 and a ground are shorted every time. In the case you plan to make you own jig, this image lays out the pads numbers on the console. Pin 4 provides 5v power to the Joycons, if connected to any other pin you will fry the console. Please note that once you have successfully entered RCM, you can take the jig out of the joycon rail.

This method requires opening your right Joy-Con, voiding its warranty. Not for the faint of heart. This method comes to us from the mind of pbanj on Discord. The goal of this method is to open the right handed Joy-Con to the point that you can reach the contact pads easily.

This is similar to the previous method, however you will be soldering wires to pins 7 and 10 shown below and wiring them to the "Joycon release button" at the top back of the right hand Joycon. In order to start this method you will want to take two lengths of wire, and wrap one end of each into a small circle.

You will then glue this wire down to the below point on the Joycon release button. Also, ensure that you leave enough space for the button to function correctly. Try pushing the button from the outside and observing its travel path so that you can see where and how you should safely glue the solder glob.