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Linux Screen Cheat Sheets
–ctrl a c -> cre­ate new win­dow
–ctrl a A -> set win­dow name
–ctrl a w -> show all win­dow
–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
–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
–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)
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