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Screen and Tmux Cheat Sheet

This document provides a summary comparison of basic features and keyboard shortcuts for the GNU screen and tmux terminal multiplexers. It includes a table listing actions like starting a new session, reattaching sessions, renaming and switching windows, splitting panes, and copying/pasting text. The formatting uses control key shortcuts like ^x as well as meta (alt) key shortcuts like M-x. It notes that this is a basic overview and not a full list of features for either tool.

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Screen and Tmux Cheat Sheet

This document provides a summary comparison of basic features and keyboard shortcuts for the GNU screen and tmux terminal multiplexers. It includes a table listing actions like starting a new session, reattaching sessions, renaming and switching windows, splitting panes, and copying/pasting text. The formatting uses control key shortcuts like ^x as well as meta (alt) key shortcuts like M-x. It notes that this is a basic overview and not a full list of features for either tool.

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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.

Want more information about tmux and screen? Check out these other resources:

• This page from Computer Taijutsu


• Mohamed Alaa's cheat sheet

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.

Action tmux screen

tmux OR
start a new session tmux new OR screen
tmux new-session

tmux attach OR
re-attach a detached session screen -r
tmux attach-session

re-attach an attached session (detaching it tmux attach -d OR


screen -dr
from elsewhere) tmux attach-session -d

re-attach an attached session (keeping it tmux attach OR


screen -x
attached elsewhere) tmux attach-session

^b d OR ^a ^d OR
detach from currently attached session
^b :detach ^a :detach

^b , <newname> OR
rename-window to newname ^b :rename-window ^a A <newname>
<newname>

list windows ^b w ^a w

list windows in chooseable menu ^a "


go to window # ^b # ^a #

go to window # (above 9) ^b ' # ^a ' #

go to last-active window ^b l ^a ^a

go to next window ^b n ^a n

go to previous window ^b p ^a p

see keybindings ^b ? ^a ?

^b s OR
list sessions tmux ls OR screen -ls
tmux list-sessions

toggle visual bell ^a ^g

create another shell ^b c ^a c

exit current shell ^d ^d

split pane horizontally ^b " ^a S

split pane vertically ^b %

switch to another pane ^b o ^a TAB

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

enable scroll/view scrollback ^b [ (q to exit) ^a [ (q to exit)

^a [ ^m (then highlight text and


copy text in one view
press enter)

paste text into a view ^a ]

All content purely from Dayid Alan

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