View Session

You need to initialize screen every time you start a new terminal.

# Check installation/version of screen
screen --version

# start session
screen

# View list of available screens
screen -list
screen -ls

screen -r process_id # reattach to process_id
screen -d -r process_id # force detach current and reattach to process_id

ctrl + a + w # Show all window

ctrl + shift + A + N # next available screen
ctrl + shift + A + P # previous available screen

## press arrow keys to toggle through the available screens
ctrl + a + "

Scrolling

# enter scrollback mode
ctrl + a + Esc
ctrl + a + ctrl + [

# Set scrollback to 10,000 line buffer
ctrl + a + :
scrollback 10000

# Set default scrollback to 10,000 lines
defscrollback 10000

Manage Sessions

# Start a new session
ctrl + A + C
screen -S session_name # Start a new named session

# set name on current session
ctrl + a + A

# detach
ctrl + a + d # detach from current session while leaving the process running
screen -DR # list detached sessions

# reattach to a session
screen -r process_id # by process_id
screen -r session_name # by name

# force detach and reattach to
screen -d -r process_id

# kill session
ctrl + a + k

Splits

# create split screen
ctrl + a + S

# switch between split screens
ctrl + a + tab

# kill all regions except current
ctrl + a + q

# remove active window from split screen
ctrl + a + x