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I have a screen session running on my local machine:

~/[email protected]$screen -S pair

Then, turn on multiuser:

ctrl-a:multiuser on

Finally, allow the user pair to connect to the session:

ctrl-a:acladd pair

So far so good. A remote user can log into the machine as pair and connect to the session:

~/$ssh [email protected]
pair@example~/$screen -x test/pair

But, if I open a split:

ctrl-a:|

The user pair cannot see the split.

Is it possible to have multiple splits open in a shared session?

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The split is done in the screen client, not in the screen session itself. pair may split his screen any way he wants, independent of your split.

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  • Is it possible to create a split that anyone in the session can see? Commented Jul 21, 2015 at 20:36
  • You might find this answer to a related question useful: unix.stackexchange.com/a/1985/119010 Commented Jul 22, 2015 at 7:20
  • I believe tmux can do that, as it separates the notions of sessions, windows and panes. Commented Jul 22, 2015 at 7:21
  • Thanks @katti! I actually use tmux all the time (though iterm2) but I didn't think it supported multiuser as well as screen. Do you know if it's possible to have 2 users on the same system share a session with tmux? Commented Jul 23, 2015 at 16:56
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Turns out screen now has a layout facility that will keep track of splits. In order for the pair to see the current layout just save it as the default:

ctrl-a:layout save default
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