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GNU Screen cheat-sheet

michu April 4, 2007 12

Screen Home: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

Basics:

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-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

How to start screen:

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-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

Advanced:

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-ctrl a S       -> create split screen
-ctrl a TAB     -> switch between split screens

If you created a new split screen, the current window is empty. either select an existing window (ctrl a “) or create a new split screen (ctrl a n).

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-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)


A 3 way screen split view

Furter reading: Linux Administration: A Beginner’s Guide

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12 Comments

  1. Joe
    Joe June 19, 2009 at 03:06 . Reply

    Great basic tutorial, how do you save “Split setting” after you detach it?

  2. Peteris Krumins
    Peteris Krumins September 23, 2009 at 10:09 . Reply

    Nice post! I’d like to share what I have created to learn screen faster. It’s a screen cheat sheet with all the possible keyboard shortcuts.

    See this: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/screen-terminal-emulator-cheat-sheet/

  3. Maniraj Patri
    Maniraj Patri October 20, 2009 at 07:02 . Reply

    This is a really nice intro

  4. Sindhu S
    Sindhu S May 6, 2010 at 18:05 . Reply

    How do I close a instance ? (that I created with C-a c)

  5. Phil
    Phil June 12, 2010 at 14:15 . Reply

    You can close an instance by exiting from the shell.

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  10. ysae
    ysae June 1, 2012 at 13:16 . Reply

    Thanks, good for a quick reference. However numbering of windows in screen starts with 0, not 1 :)

  11. Sean
    Sean November 14, 2012 at 02:40 . Reply

    Thanks for this! This was really helpful.

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