GNU Screen
January 31st, 2009
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I am a constant user of screen and it always suprises me how many people use it and barely know how truly powerful it is. Here is a short list of some very neat tricks.
| Starting a new session | screen |
| Reattach to a session | screen -r |
| Leave a session | ^A d |
| Open another window | ^A c |
| Change to a window | ^A number |
| Change to next window | ^A space |
| Change window via the window list | ^A “ |
| Add a split region | ^A S |
| Jump between split regions | ^A tab |
| Close region | ^A X |
| Close all the other regions | ^A Q |
| Enter “copy mode” (useful for scrollback!) | ^A [ |
| Watch for silence | ^A _ |
| Watch for activity | ^A M |
| Protect screen with password | ^A x |
As always looking through info and man pages can provide a raft of information about tools and sometimes uncover tricks that you might of otherwise not known about!