Screen

Screen FOO!!!

open a screen, and these are the usefull keybindings.

      C-a ?       (help)        Show key bindings.
      C-a [                     Start to scroll in the screen.
      C-a S       (split)       Split the current region into two new ones.
      C-a C-c     (screen)      Create a new window with a shell and switch to that window.
      C-a "       (windowlist -b) Present a list of all windows for selection.
      C-a tab     (focus)       Switch the input focus to the next region.
      C-a X       (remove)      Kill the current region. (requires root password)

These are the useful commands that I use above.

The following table shows the default key bindings:

      C-a ’       (select)      Prompt for a window name or number to switch to.
      C-a "       (windowlist -b) Present a list of all windows for selection.
      C-a 0       (select 0)
      C-a 9       (select 9)
      C-a -       (select -)    Switch to window number 0 - 9, or to the blank window.
      C-a tab     (focus)       Switch the input focus to the next region.
      C-a C-a     (other)       Toggle  to  the  window  displayed previously.  Note that this binding defaults to the command character typed twice, unless overridden.
      C-a a       (meta)        Send the command character (C-a) to window. See escape command.
      C-a A       (title)       Allow the user to enter a name for the current window.
      C-a b
      C-a C-b     (break)       Send a break to window.
      C-a B       (pow_break)   Reopen the terminal line and send a break.
      C-a c
      C-a C-c     (screen)      Create a new window with a shell and switch to that window.
      C-a C       (clear)       Clear the screen.
      C-a d
      C-a C-d     (detach)      Detach screen from this terminal.
      C-a D D     (pow_detach)  Detach and logout.
      C-a f
      C-a C-f     (flow)        Toggle flow on, off or auto.
      C-a F       (fit)         Resize the window to the current region size.
      C-a C-g     (vbell)       Toggles screen’s visual bell mode.
      C-a h       (hardcopy)    Write a hardcopy of the current window to the
                                file "hardcopy.n".
      C-a H       (log)         Begins/ends logging of the current window  to
                                the file "screenlog.n".
      C-a i
      C-a C-i     (info)        Show info about this window.
      C-a k
      C-a C-k     (kill)        Destroy current window.
      C-a l
      C-a C-l     (redisplay)   Fully refresh current window.
      C-a L       (login)       Toggle  this  windows  login  slot. Available
                                only if screen is configured  to  update  the
                                utmp database.
      C-a m
      C-a C-m     (lastmsg)     Repeat the last message displayed in the mes-
                                sage line.
      C-a M       (monitor)     Toggles monitoring of the current window.
      C-a space
      C-a n
      C-a C-n     (next)        Switch to the next window.
      C-a N       (number)      Show the number (and title)  of  the  current
                                window.
      C-a backspace
      C-a h
      C-a p
      C-a C-p     (prev)        Switch to the previous window (opposite of C-
                                a n).
      C-a q
      C-a C-q     (xon)         Send a control-q to the current window.
      C-a Q       (only)        Delete all regions but the current one.
      C-a r
      C-a C-r     (wrap)        Toggle the current window's line-wrap setting
                                (turn  the current window's automatic margins
                                on and off).
      C-a s
      C-a C-s     (xoff)        Send a control-s to the current window.
      C-a S       (split)       Split the current region into two new ones.
      C-a t
      C-a C-t     (time)        Show system information.
      C-a v       (version)     Display the version and compilation date.
      C-a C-v     (digraph)     Enter digraph.
      C-a w
      C-a C-w     (windows)     Show a list of window.
      C-a W       (width)       Toggle 80/132 columns.
      C-a x
      C-a C-x     (lockscreen)  Lock this terminal.
      C-a X       (remove)      Kill the current region.
      C-a z
      C-a C-z     (suspend)     Suspend screen.   Your  system  must  support
                                BSD-style job-control.
      C-a Z       (reset)       Reset  the virtual terminal to its "power-on"
                                values.
      C-a .       (dumptermcap) Write out a ".termcap" file.
      C-a ?       (help)        Show key bindings.
      C-a C-\     (quit)        Kill all windows and terminate screen.
      C-a :       (colon)       Enter command line mode.
      C-a [
      C-a C-[
      C-a esc     (copy)        Enter copy/scrollback mode.
      C-a ]       (paste .)     Write the contents of the paste buffer to the
                                stdin queue of the current window.
      C-a {
      C-a }       (history)     Copy and paste a previous (command) line.
      C-a >       (writebuf)    Write paste buffer to a file.
      C-a <       (readbuf)     Reads the screen-exchange file into the paste
                                buffer.
      C-a =       (removebuf)   Removes the file used by C-a < and C-a >.
      C-a ,       (license)     Shows where screen comes from, where it  went
                                to and why you can use it.
      C-a _       (silence)     Start/stop  monitoring the current window for
                                inactivity.
      C-a *       (displays)    Show a listing of all currently attached dis-
                                plays.