Gnu Screen
Useful cheat-sheet of Gnu Screen shortcuts for terminal manipulation and multiplexing. Note that capital letters on shortcuts should be types with the Shift key pressed-down.
| CTRL+A | Attention – Every command starts with this |
| CTRL+A,d | Detach from the current session |
| CTRL+A, S | Split current region vertically |
| CTRL+A, | | Split current region horizontally |
| CTRL+A, TAB | Cycle through all regions on the current session |
| CTRL+A, :remove | Remove currently selected region |
| CTRL+A, “ | Show a list of terminals to switch to |
| CTRL+A, n | Switch to the next terminal into the current region |
| CTRL+A, p | Switch to the previous terminal into the current region |
| CTRL+A, c | Create a new multiplexed terminal on the current region |
| CTRL+A, Q | Quit split screen mode |
| CTRL+A, ESCAPE | Enter/Exit Copy mode, useful for scrolling on the buffer |
| CTRL+A, k | Kill the terminal on the currently selected region |
| CTRL+A, x | Locks the current screen session |
| CTRL+A, CTRL+G | Switch between audible and visual bell for the current session |
Gnu Screen arguments that should be used when dealing with the ‘screen‘ binary from the shell
| screen -S <name> | Creates a new session using the given name, and automatically attaches to it |
| screen -r [name] | Reconnects to a given session, or the only session active if no name is provided |
| screen -ls | Displays a list of the existing sessions for the user |
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