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(screen.info)Monitor

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Monitoring
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 - Command: activity message
     (none)
     When any activity occurs in a background window that is being
     monitored, `screen' displays a notification in the message line.
     The notification message can be redefined by means of the
     `activity' command.  Each occurrence of `%' in MESSAGE is replaced
     by the number of the window in which activity has occurred, and
     each occurrence of `^G' is replaced by the definition for bell in
     your termcap (usually an audible bell).  The default message is

          'Activity in window %n'

     Note that monitoring is off for all windows by default, but can be
     altered by use of the `monitor' command (`C-a M').

 - Command: defmonitor state
     (none)
     Same as the `monitor' command except that the default setting for
     new windows is changed.  Initial setting is `off'.

 - Command: monitor [state]
     (`C-a M')
     Toggles monitoring of the current window.  When monitoring is
     turned on and the affected window is switched into the background,
     the activity notification message will be displayed in the status
     line at the first sign of output, and the window will also be
     marked with an `@' in the window-status display (Note: Windows).
     Monitoring defaults to `off' for all windows.