GNU Screen Cheat Sheet

Basics

• ctrl a c -> cre­ate new win­dow
• ctrl a A -> set win­dow name
• ctrl a w -> show all win­dows
• 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

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

Advanced

• ctrl a S -> cre­ate split screen
• ctrl a TAB -> 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)