The GNU screen is unresponsive, seems blocked

Question

GNU Screen seems to freeze. Unable to enter user input.

I was using GNU screen and when I pressed the screen it became unresponsive. I can execute all the GNU screen c

Answer 1

If you are using backtick commands in status line - that is, if your .screenrc has something like this:

backtick 1 0 60 /some/script.sh

then you want to be sure that the script is fast: apparently backtick execution blocks all IO to screen.

If you make changes to the config, you'll need to restart the screen session (as the config applies only to new sessions).