Screen Cheat Sheet

screen.md

GNU Screen Cheat Sheet

Starting screen

• screen –DR -> list of detached screen
• screen –r PID -> attach detached screen session
• screen –dmS MySession -> start a detached screen session
• screen –r MySession -> attach screen session with name MySession

Basics

Key combo	Effect
ctrl-a, c	create new window
ctrl-a, A	set window name
ctrl-a, w	show all window
ctrl-a, 1/2/3/…	switch to window n
ctrl-a, "	choose window
ctrl-a, ctrl-a	switch between window
ctrl-a, d	detach window
ctrl-a, ?	help
ctrl-a, [	start copy, move cursor to the copy location, press ENTER, select the chars, press ENTER to copy the selected characters to the buffer
ctrl-a, ]	paste from buffer

Advanced

Key combo	Effect
ctrl-a, S	create split screen
ctrl-a, ⇥	switch between split screens
ctrl-a, Q	Kill all regions but the current one
ctrl-a, X	remove active window from split screen
ctrl-a, O	logout active window (disable output)
ctrl-a, I	login active window (enable output)