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htop shows blank screen


Argh! My htop is showing a blank screen. I’m afraid of the dark…helppp!

Solution: export TERM=xterm-color before running htop

My tmux uses TERM=screen and htop didn’t like it on one particular machine while the others are fine. Setting it to the above solves it.

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How to Split the GNU screen in half horizontally?

1. Create two screen sessions
2. Ctrl+a S to split in half
3. Ctrl+a TAB to move to bottom half
4. Ctrl+a ” to select session
5. Ctrl+a Q to return to full size screen