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New page: '''screen''' provides you with an ANSI/vt100 terminal emulator, which can multiplex up to 10 pseudo-terminals. On startup, it executes $SHELL in window 0. Then it reads $HOME/.screenrc to ...

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'''screen''' provides you with an ANSI/vt100 terminal emulator, which can multiplex up to 10 pseudo-terminals. On startup, it executes $SHELL in window 0. Then it reads $HOME/.screenrc to learn configuration, keybindings, and possibly open more windows.

==Usage==

*Reattach to a specific detached session. The terminal emulator reconfigures according to your $TERMCAP or $TERM settings. When you have multiple screens detached, you must supply the session name:
$ screen -r [pid.tty.host|tty.host]

*Reattach to a detached session or (if none) create a new session:
$ screen -R

*Detach a screen session remotely. Has the same effect as typing "<code>C-a d</code>" on the controlling terminal. <code>`screen -D`</code> will power-detach:
$ screen -d [pid.tty.host|tty.host]

* Show all available sessions and their status. Use <code>-wipe</code> to remove DEAD sessions:
$ screen -list
$ screen -ls
$ screen -wipe

If sockets are missing, you may send a SIGCHLD to its "SCREEN" process and the process will re-establish the socket (think of someone cleaning <code>/tmp</code> thoroughly).

*Start a new screen session and set the number of lines in the scrollback buffer to 200 (the default is 100 lines):
$ screen -h 200

==Keyboard shortcuts==
<pre>
C-a ? (help) Show all keybindings.

C-a c (screen) Create new windows.

C-a SPACE (next) Advance to next window (with wraparound).

C-a C-a (other) Toggle between the current and previously
displayed windows.

C-a 0 (select n) Switch to window n=0 ... 9.
...
C-a 9

C-a w (windows) Show a list of window names in the status line.

C-a a (meta) Send a literal C-a/C-s/C-q to the
C-a s (xoff) process in the window.
C-a q (xon) For instance, emacs uses C-a and C-s.

C-a l (redisplay) Redraw this window.

C-a W (width) Toggle between 80 & 132 columns mode.

C-a L (login) Try to toggle the window's utmp-slot.

C-a z (suspend) Suspend the whole screen session.

C-a x (lockscreen) Execute /usr/bin/lock, $LOCKCMD or a
built-in terminal lock.

C-a H (log) Log stdout of window n to screenlog.n.

C-a C-[ (copy) Start copy mode. Move cursor with h,j,k,l.
Set 2 marks with SPACE or y. Abort with ESC.
(C-[ is ESC.) Preceeding second mark with
an a appends the text to the copy buffer.

C-a C-] (paste) Output copy buffer to current window's stdin.

C-a < (readbuf) Read the copy buffer from /tmp/screen-exchange.
C-a > (writebuf) Write the copy buffer to /tmp/screen-exchange.

C-a d (detach) Detach screen. All processes continue and may
spool output to their pty's, but screen
disconnects from your terminal.

C-a D D (pow_detach) Power detach. Disconnect like C-a d but also
kill the parent shell.

C-a K (kill) Kill a window and send SIGHUP to its process
group. Per default this would be C-a C-k,
but it is redefined in the demo .screenrc
(think of killing a whole line in emacs).

C-a : (colon) Online configuration change.
</pre>
See the man page or TeXinfo manual for many more keybindings and commands.

==External links==
*[https://github.com/amade/screen/tree/devel Modified GNU screen source code]
*[https://github.com/christophchamp/dnaomics/blob/master/admin/dotfiles/screenrc Example .screenrc file]

[[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]

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 ==External links==
 *[https://github.com/amade/screen/tree/devel Modified GNU screen source code]
 *[https://github.com/christophchamp/dnaomics/blob/master/admin/dotfiles/screenrc Example .screenrc file]
 [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]

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    C-a : 	(colon)		Online configuration change.
 </pre>
 See the man page or TeXinfo manual for many more keybindings and commands.

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 ==Usage==
-*Reattach to a specific detached session. The terminal emulator reconfigures according to your $TERMCAP or $TERM settings. When you have multiple screens detached, you must supply the session name:
+* Start a named session:
   $ screen -r [pid.tty.host|tty.host]
-*Reattach to a detached session or (if none) create a new session:
+* Reattach to a detached session or (if none) create a new session:
   $ screen -R
-*Detach a screen session remotely. Has the same effect as typing "<code>C-a d</code>" on the controlling terminal. <code>`screen -D`</code> will power-detach:
+* Detach a screen session remotely. Has the same effect as typing "<code>C-a d</code>" on the controlling terminal. <code>`screen -D`</code> will power-detach:
   $ screen -d [pid.tty.host|tty.host]
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 If sockets are missing, you may send a SIGCHLD to its "SCREEN" process and the process will re-establish the socket (think of someone cleaning <code>/tmp</code> thoroughly).
-*Start a new screen session and set the number of lines in the scrollback buffer to 200 (the default is 100 lines):
+* Start a new screen session and set the number of lines in the scrollback buffer to 200 (the default is 100 lines):
   $ screen -h 200