Screen Quick Howto

What is screen?

man page: "Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells)." Here is a screen screen tutorial.

Screen quickref

Most of the data below has been taken from the screen quick reference.

Shortcuts
Action	Shortcut
Change to last-visited active window	C-a C-a (commonly used to flip-flop between two windows)
Change to window by number	C-a <number> (only for windows 0 to 9)
Change to window by number or name'	C-a <number or title>
Change to next window in list	C-a n or C-a <space>
Change to previous window in list	C-a p
Split current screen session into two regions	C-A S
Remove current region	C-a X
remove all regions but the current one	C-a Q
Switch between displayed regions	C-a TAB
Create new session in split region	C-a c
Return to a single region	C-a Q
Detach	C-a d
Detach and logout (quick exit)	C-a D D
Enter copy mode	C-a [ (also used for viewing scrollback buffer) and with C-]
Paste	C-a ]
Rename current window	C-a A (note the uppercase 'A'!)
Console commands
Detach attached session	screen -D
Detach attached screen session (possibly running in another terminal) and reattach in current terminal	screen -Dr
Detach specific screen session (when more than one sessions are running)	screen -D 14493.ssh2others
Move cursor to beginning of line	Control+a (release Control) + a