Just like magic, your session is back up and running, just like you never left it. Now, go to a different machine, open a shell, ssh to the machine running screen (the one you just detached from), and type: this will detach screen from this terminal. Once you have screen running, switch to any of the running windows and type Control-a d. This can change the default keystrokes, bind function keys F11, F12 or even set a load of programs/windows to run as soon as you start screen. You can modify screen’s settings by creating a ~/.screenrc file in your home directory. The interactive commands above assume the default key bindings. To start screen automatically at login, set your. Programs continue to run when their window is currently not visible and even when the whole screen session is detached from the user's terminal. Switch between windows - all windows run their programs completely independent of each other. When screen is called, it creates a single window with a shell in it (or the specified command) and then gets out of your way so that you can use the program as you normally would.Ĭreate new (full-screen) windows with other programs in them (including more shells)

Interactive commands (default key bindings):Ĭontrol-a ' List all windows for selectionĬontrol-a ' Prompt for a window name or number to switch to.Ĭontrol-a A Accept a title name for the current window.Ĭontrol-a c Create new window running a shellĬontrol-a d Detach screen from this terminal.Ĭontrol-a F Resize the window to the current region size.Ĭontrol-a h Write a hardcopy of the current window to file 'hardcopy.n'Ĭontrol-a H Begin/end logging of the current window to file 'screenlog.n'Ĭontrol-a k Kill (Destroy) the current window.Ĭontrol-a m Repeat the last message displayed.Ĭontrol-a M Monitor the current window for activity Ĭontrol-a * Show a listing of all currently attached displays. X Execute cmd as a screen command in the specified session. R Reattach if possible, otherwise start a new session. r Reattach to a detached screen process. list List our SockDir and do nothing else (-ls) D -m Start in 'detached' mode, & don't fork a new process. D -RR Do whatever is needed to Reattach a screen session. D (-r) Detach and logout remote (and reattach here). dmS name Start as daemon: Screen session in detached mode. d (-r) Detach the elsewhere running screen (and reattach here).

c file Read configuration file instead of. A - Adapt all windows to the new display width & height. Multiplex a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells).

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