I'm new to Unraid and wanted install the command screen for terminal to my system, seeing that Nerd Tools is now deprecated I took it upon myself to try and make my first plugin.

 

Here's an easy way to install screen for terminal

 

 

How to use:

Go to the Plugins tab > Install Plugin

Enter the following URL

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trulow/Screen-for-Unraid/main/plugin/Screen-for-Unraid.plg

 

View the man page for screen here:

https://linux.die.net/man/1/screen

 

Source:

https://github.com/trulow/Unraid_screen

 

If this is the wrong place, please let me know and I can either move it or take it down.

Edited January 23Jan 23 by trulow
Updated URL

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### 2026.01.23

- Install 5.0.1 with automatic checksum validation and mirror fallback

Download sources:

http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current

http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware64-current

### 2024.06.11

- Initial release to install screen-4.9.0-x86_64-1

Edited January 23Jan 23 by trulow

Thanks for your effort, I used screen for many years. I'm now a tmux convert, perhaps you could look into that?

https://www.howtogeek.com/671422/how-to-use-tmux-on-linux-and-why-its-better-than-screen/

Thank you so much for this plugin. It saved me hours of frustration.
I really do not understand why limetech is not including the screen command by default. It literally does not cost a lot of space and would make life so much easier.

Thank God this exists.

When nerd tools stoped working this is the solution.

On 12/31/2025 at 2:05 PM, TheFreemancer said:

Thank God this exists.

When nerd tools stoped working this is the solution.

I would think that using tmux can do as good a job, and there is a tmux plugin to give a GUI based way of managing sessions.

Updated this to the latest screen version 5.0.1.

Also made some changes so that it now pulls screen directly from slackware.

Anyone know how I can submit this to be approved for the community application store?

Edited January 23Jan 23 by trulow