The Complete GNU Screen Reference Card ====================================== based on the GNU Screen Quick Reference Card by Ahmad Fahad Al-Twaijiry, ahmadt@gmail.com completed by Sven Guckes, screen@guckes.net Latest change: Sat Feb 04 19:45:00 CET 2006 Startup: $ screen -d -r Reattach a session and (if necessary) detach it first. $ screen -e^oo Start a session with escape character CTRL-O and use an 'o' to pass on an CTRL-O to the process inside the current window. notation: Control-A == CTRL-A == C-a == ^A default binding: command name: C-a C-\ quit Kill all windows and terminate screen. C-a " select Prompt for a window identifier and switch. C-a ' windowlist ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C-a Tab focus Switch the input focus downwards to the next region (split screen). C-a C-a other Toggle to the window displayed previously. C-a a meta Send the command/escape/meta character (C-a) to the process in current window. C-a A title Allow the user to enter a title for the current window. C-a b or C-b break ... C-a B pow_break ... C-a c or C-c screen Create a new window with a shell and switch to that window. C-a C clear Clear the screen. C-a d or C-d detach Detach screen from this terminal. C-a D pow_detach Detach and logout. C-a e or E or C-e free! todo: C-a f or F or C-F ... ... C-a g or G or C-G ... ... C-a h or H or C-H ... ... C-a i or I or C-I ... ... C-a j or J or C-J ... ... C-a k or K or C-K ... ... C-a l or L or C-L ... ... C-a m or M or C-M ... ... C-a n or N or C-N ... ... C-a o or O or C-O ... ... C-a p or P or C-P ... ... C-a q or Q or C-Q ... ... C-a r or R or C-R ... ... C-a s or S or C-S ... ... C-a t or T or C-T ... ... C-a u or U or C-U ... ... C-a v or V or C-V ... ... C-a w or W or C-W ... ... C-a x or X or C-X ... ... C-a y or Y or C-Y ... ... C-a z or Z or C-Z ... ... C-a H log Toggle logging of the current window to the file "screenlog.n". C-a K kill Destroy the current window. C-a m lastmsg Repeat the last message displayed in the message line. C-a M monitor Toggle monitoring of the current window. C-a n or SPC or C-n next Switch to the next window. C-a N number Show the number (and title) of the current window. C-a p or C-p prev Switch to the previous window. C-a Q only Delete all regions but the current one. C-a S split Split the current region into two new ones. C-a t time uptime C-a w windows Show a list of active windows. C-a x lockscreen Lock your terminal. C-a X remove Kill the current region. C-a [ or C-[ or ESC copy Enter copy/scrollback mode. C-a C-] or ] paste Write the contents of the paste buffer to the stdin queue of the current window. Command Line only: resize [(+/-/=)lines] Resize the current region. all 53 command names: break clear colon copy detach digraph displays dumptermcap fit flow focus hardcopy help history info kill lastmsg license log login meta monitor next number only other pow_break pow_detach prev quit readbuf redisplay remove removebuf reset screen select silence split suspend time title vbell version width windows wrap writebuf xoff xon (missing: lockscreen paste windowlist) not yet described in list above: break colon digraph displays dumptermcap fit flow hardcopy help history info license login pow_break readbuf redisplay removebuf reset silence suspend vbell version width wrap writebuf xoff xon === default key bindings (listed by command name) break ^B b clear C colon : copy ^[ [ detach ^D d digraph ^V displays * dumptermcap . fit F flow ^F f focus ^I hardcopy h help ? history { } info i kill K k lastmsg ^M m license , log H login L meta x monitor M next ^@ ^N sp n number N only Q other ^X pow_break B pow_detach D prev ^H ^P p ^? quit \ readbuf < redisplay ^L l remove X removebuf = reset Z screen ^C c select " ' silence _ split S suspend ^Z z time ^T t title A vbell ^G version v width W windows ^W w wrap ^R r writebuf > xoff ^S s xon ^Q q ^] paste . - select - 0 select 0 1 select 1 2 select 2 3 select 3 4 select 4 5 select 5 6 select 6 7 select 7 8 select 8 9 select 9 I login on O login off ] paste .