screen and tmux
A comparison of the features (or more-so just a table of notes for accessing some of those features) for GNU screen and BSD-licensed tmux.
This document released for use under the PPL license available at http://code.dayid.org/ppl/ppl.txt
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The formatting here is simple enough to understand (I would hope). ^ means ctrl+, so ^x is ctrl+x. M- means meta (generally left-alt or escape)+, so M-x is left-alt+x
It should be noted that this is no where near a full feature-set of either group. This - being a cheat-sheet - is just to point out the most very basic features to get you on the road.
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| Action | tmux | screen |
| start a new session | tmux OR
tmux new OR
tmux new-session | screen |
| re-attach a detached session | tmux attach OR
tmux attach-session | screen -r |
| re-attach an attached session (detaching it from elsewhere) | tmux attach -d OR
tmux attach-session -d | screen -dr |
| re-attach an attached session (keeping it attached elsewhere) | tmux attach OR
tmux attach-session | screen -x |
| detach from currently attached session | ^b d OR
^b :detach | ^a ^d OR
^a :detach |
| rename-window to newname | ^b , <newname> OR
^b :rename-window <newname> | ^a A <newname> |
| list windows | ^b w | ^a w |
| list windows in chooseable menu | | ^a " |
| go to window # | ^b # | ^a # |
| go to last-active window | ^b l | ^a l |
| go to next window | ^b n | ^a n |
| go to previous window | ^b p | ^a p |
| see keybindings | ^b ? | ^a ? |
| list sessions | ^b s OR
tmux ls OR
tmux list-sessions | screen -ls |
| toggle visual bell | | ^a ^g |
| create another shell | ^b c | ^a c |
| exit current shell | ^d | ^d |
| split pane horizontally | ^b " | |
| split pane vertically | ^b % | |
| switch to another pane | ^b o | |
| kill the current pane | ^b x OR (logout/^D) | |
| close other panes except the current one | ^b ! | |
| swap location of panes | ^b ^o | |
| show time | ^b t | |
| show numeric values of panes | ^b q | |
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