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- # Screen Quick Reference
- ## Basic
- | Description | Command |
- |---------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
- | Start a new session with session name | `screen -S <session_name>` |
- | List running sessions / screens | `screen -ls` |
- | Attach to a running session | `screen -x` |
- | Attach to a running session with name | `screen -r <session_name>` |
- | Detach a running session | `screen -d <session_name>` |
- | Enable vertical scrolling mode* in a running session | `Ctrl-a ESC` |
- * The vertical scrolling mode works with mouse scrolling as well as up and down arrows. Press `ESC` to cancel out of this mode.
- ## Escape Key
- All screen commands are prefixed by an escape key, by default Ctrl-a (that's Control-a, sometimes written ^a). To send a literal Ctrl-a to the programs in screen, use Ctrl-a a. This is useful when when working with screen within screen. For example Ctrl-a a n will move screen to a new window on the screen within screen.
- ## Getting Out
- | Description | Command |
- |---------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
- | detach | `Ctrl-a d` |
- | detach and logout (quick exit) | `Ctrl-a D D` |
- | exit screen | `Ctrl-a :` quit or exit all of the programs in screen.|
- | force-exit screen | `Ctrl-a C-\` (not recommended) |
- ## Help
- | Description | Command |
- |---------------|-------------------------------|
- | See help | `Ctrl-a ?` (Lists keybindings)|
- ## Window Management
- | Description | Command |
- |---------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | Create new window | `Ctrl-a c` |
- | Change to last-visited active window | `Ctrl-a Ctrl-a` (commonly used to flip-flop between two windows) |
- | Change to window by number | `Ctrl-a <number>` (only for windows 0 to 9) |
- | Change to window by number or name | `Ctrl-a ' <number or title>` |
- | Change to next window in list | `Ctrl-a n` or `Ctrl-a <space>` |
- | Change to previous window in list | `Ctrl-a p` or `Ctrl-a <backspace>` |
- | See window list | `Ctrl-a "` (allows you to select a window to change to) |
- | Show window bar | `Ctrl-a w` (if you don't have window bar) |
- | Kill current window | `Ctrl-a k` (not recommended) |
- | Kill all windows | `Ctrl-a \` (not recommended) |
- | Rename current window | `Ctrl-a A` |
- ## Split screen
- | Description | Command |
- |---------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | Split display horizontally | `Ctrl-a S` |
- | Split display vertically | `Ctrl-a \|` or `Ctrl-a V` (for the vanilla vertical screen patch) |
- | Jump to next display region | `Ctrl-a tab` |
- | Remove current region | `Ctrl-a X` |
- | Remove all regions but the current one| `Ctrl-a Q` |
- ## Misc
- | Description | Command |
- |-------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | Redraw window | `Ctrl-a C-l` |
- | Enter copy mode | `Ctrl-a [` or `Ctrl-a <esc>` (also used for viewing scrollback buffer)|
- | Paste | `Ctrl-a ]` |
- | Monitor window for activity | `Ctrl-a M` |
- | Monitor window for silence | `Ctrl-a _` |
- | Enter digraph (for producing non-ASCII characters) | `Ctrl-a Ctrl-v` |
- | Lock (password protect) display | `Ctrl-a x` |
- | Enter screen command | `Ctrl-a :` |
- | Enable logging in the screen session | `Ctrl-a H` |
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