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[If you just got the screen package, it pays to read the file INSTALL]
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[This intro only describes the most common features to get you started]
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[A full description of all features is contained in the source package]
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Short introduction to screen (Version 3.6.0) lvirden 8-8-93
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Send bugreports, fixes, enhancements, t-shirts, money, beer & pizza to
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screen@uni-erlangen.de
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Screen provides you with an ANSI/vt100 terminal emulator, which can multiplex
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up to 10 pseudo-terminals. On startup, it executes $SHELL in window 0.
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Then it reads $HOME/.screenrc to learn configuration, keybindings, and
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possibly open more windows.
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C-a ? (help) Show all keybindings.
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C-a c (screen) Create new windows.
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C-a SPACE (next) Advance to next window (with wraparound).
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C-a C-a (other) Toggle between the current and previously
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C-a 0 (select n) Switch to window n=0 ... 9.
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C-a w (windows) Show a list of window names in the status line.
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C-a a (meta) Send a literal C-a/C-s/C-q to the
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C-a s (xoff) process in the window.
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C-a q (xon) For instance, emacs uses C-a and C-s.
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C-a l (redisplay) Redraw this window.
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C-a W (width) Toggle between 80 & 132 columns mode.
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C-a L (login) Try to toggle the window's utmp-slot.
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C-a z (suspend) Suspend the whole screen session.
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C-a x (lockscreen) Execute /usr/bin/lock, $LOCKCMD or a
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built-in terminal lock.
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C-a H (log) Log stdout of window n to screenlog.n.
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C-a C-[ (copy) Start copy mode. Move cursor with h,j,k,l.
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Set 2 marks with SPACE or y. Abort with ESC.
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(C-[ is ESC.) Preceeding second mark with
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an a appends the text to the copy buffer.
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C-a C-] (paste) Output copy buffer to current window's stdin.
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C-a < (readbuf) Read the copy buffer from /tmp/screen-exchange.
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C-a > (writebuf) Write the copy buffer to /tmp/screen-exchange.
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C-a d (detach) Detach screen. All processes continue and may
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spool output to their pty's, but screen
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disconnects from your terminal.
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C-a D D (pow_detach) Power detach. Disconnect like C-a d but also
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kill the parent shell.
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C-a K (kill) Kill a window and send SIGHUP to its process
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group. Per default this would be C-a C-k,
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but it is redefined in the demo .screenrc
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(think of killing a whole line in emacs).
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C-a : (colon) Online configuration change.
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See the man page or TeXinfo manual for many more keybindings and commands.
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screen -r [pid.tty.host|tty.host]
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Reattach to a specific detached session. The terminal emulator
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reconfigures according to your $TERMCAP or $TERM settings.
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When you have multiple screens detached, you must supply the session
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screen -R reattaches to a detached session or (if none) creates a new
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screen -d [pid.tty.host|tty.host]
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Detach a screen session remotely. Has the same effect as typing 'C-a d'
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on the controlling terminal. 'screen -D' will power-detach.
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Show all available sessions and their status. Use -wipe to remove
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If sockets are missing, you may send a SIGCHLD to its 'SCREEN'
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process and the process will re-establish the socket (think of
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someone cleaning /tmp thoroughly).
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Starts a new screen session and sets the number of lines in the scrollback
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buffer to 200. The default is 100 lines.
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