Using Screen (full-screen shell window manager)

Screen notes

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes
note:
ctrl-a means type control key plus a

Basic

  • To Start a screen with session name
     screen -S sessionname
    
  • To get help screen
     ctrl-a ?
  • To Create new windows within screen
     ctrl-a + c 
  • To deatach screen type
     screen -d 
  • to Attach a running screen which was Detach first
     
     #if there is onlye one session 
     screen -r 
     screen -r sessionname 
  • To list available screen session
     screen -ls 
     ## to attach to screen 
     screen -r session_name 
  • To Rename window in screen
      ctrl+a A 
  • To split the window on one screen
     ctrl-a + S
  • To change to split window
     ctrl + tab 
  • To kill alll the split and make the current windows active
     ctrl-a + Q 
  • Related links

    http://www.bangmoney.org/presentations/screen.html
    http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/