Screen

Basics

Opening

 screen

This will open a new screen session

Creating windows

When you start screen, it presents you with one default window.

ctrl + a + c

This keybinding will open a new window (window 2) inside screen.

Switching windows

If you have more than one window open, you can switch between them using.

ctrl + a + a

or using

ctrl + a + window_number

or using

ctrl + a + n
ctrl + a + p

to go forward, or back.

Detaching screen

The beauty of screen is that it can remain running when you are logged out, therefor allowing you to run time consuming processes in the background. Dettach using

ctrl + a + d

Reattaching screen

To reattach an allready detached screen, use.

screen -d -r

The -d will dettach any "attached" screens and -r will reattach your screen.

Killing screen

Often enough new members (and people like goldfish) will make mistakes with screen. To kill screen altogether and start over

ctrl + a + \

More commands

A long list of screen commands can be found here: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=s/screen

Note that if you have more than one screen session available, you will need to specify the screen id you wish to open.