12.02.2010
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
In ~/.screenrc
# this will give you a nice bottom status bar
hardstatus alwayslastline '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{=kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B}%Y-%m-%d %{W}%c %{g}]'
Note: pay attention that “A” is different from “a”. For “A” you should press Shift+a or use CapsLock to insert it.
| Before entering the screen |
| screen -ls | list available sessions |
| screen -r XXXX | reattach to the screen session (specify XXXX id if multiple) |
| Attach / Detach |
| Ctrl+a c | creates a new window inside screen |
| Ctrl+a Ctrl+d | detach the current screen session |
| Ctrl+a 0,1,2… | moves to window 0,1,2… |
| Ctrl+a K | kill a window |
| Windows operations |
| Ctrl+a A | changes the name of the window |
| Ctrl+a ? | get help |
| Ctrl+a n | go to the next window |
| Ctrl+a p | go to the previous window |
| Ctrl+a Ctrl+a | cycle between current and last window you were in |
| Ctrl+a ” | get a list of open windows; you can select from here |
| Ctrl+a F or :fit | fits the screen to the new terminal size |
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| General operations |
| Ctrl+a H | enable logging |
| Ctrl+a M | monitor for activity(alert at the bottom) |
| Ctrl+a _ | monitor for silence(alert at the bottom) |
| Ctrl+a x | lock the session with a password |
| Splitting into regions |
| Ctrl+a S | Splits horizontally a window into regions |
| Ctrl+a :resize | resize (asks for lines) the region |
| Ctrl+a :remove | removes selected region |
| Ctrl+a <tab> | jump to another region (no window inside) |
| Buffer |
| Ctrl+a [ | enter copy mode, use arrows to navigate and Enter to set marks |
| Ctrl+a ] | paste the buffer |
| Ctrl+a > | write paste buffer to file (useful for copying between screens) |
| Ctrl+a < | read paste buffer from file (useful for pasting between screens) |
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