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This article is a general overview of screen: http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi#learning_screen

I never knew you could do that... screen is badass.

Cheatsheet

launch screen for the first time:

screen

list all available screens:

screen -list

detach from a screen:

ctrl-a, d

reattach a screen:

screen -rd [screen-id-optional]

enter scroll/copy mode:

ctrl-a, [

resize:

ctrl-a :resize 50

save region layout:

ctrl-a :layout save [name]

I started messing with tmux because everyone at my new job uses it, I found this cheat sheet really useful:


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