Linux Journal | The Original Magazine of the Linux Community. Screen User's Manual - Commands. Go to the first, previous, next, last section, table of contents. A command in screen can either be bound to a key, invoked from a screenrc file, or called from the colon prompt (see section Customizing Screen). As of version 3.3, all commands can be bound to keys, although some may be less useful than others. For a number of real life working examples of the most important commands see the files `etc/screenrc' and `etc/etcscreenrc' of your screen distribution. In this manual, a command definition looks like this: -- Command: command [-n] ARG1 [ARG2] ... () This command does something, but I can't remember what.
An argument in square brackets (`[]') is optional. Default Key Bindings: screen keyboard commands. Default Key Bindings As mentioned previously, each keyboard command consists of a C-a followed by one other character. The following table shows the default key bindings: C-a ' C-a " (select) Prompt for a window identifier and switch. C-a 0...9 C-a C-a C-a a C-a A C-a b C-a B C-a c C-a C-c C-a C at. SourceForge.net: Download and Develop Open Source Software for F.