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Commands may be placed in your .screenrc file, run from screen
's command line, bound to keypresses, or triggered by other commands (e.g. at
or eval
). Some are used to configure screen
's behavior, while others cause screen
to take various actions.
The following commands are available:
acladd
- Adds users with full permission to all windows.aclchg
- Adds users with more flexible permissions or changes the permissions on an existing user.acldel
- Removes a user from screen
's knowledge.aclgrp
- Adds a user to a group or just describes user's group membership.aclumask
- Sets default permissions for windows not yet created.activity
- Set message displayed by screen when a monitored window shows activity.allpartial
- Global command equivalent to setting partial
for all current windows.bce
- Sets or toggle background-color-erase setting.c1
- Sets or toggles c1 code processing.charset
- Changes the current character set slot designation and charset mapping.defcharset
- Same as charset
, but sets the default setting for new windows.defencoding
- Same as encoding
, but sets the default setting for new windows.defmonitor
- Set the default monitoring status for new windows.defnonblock
- Same as nonblock
, but sets the default setting for new displays.defsilence
- Set the default silence monitoring status for new windows.defwritelock
- Sets the default writelock setting for new windows.dinfo
- Shows what settings screen
is using for the current display.dumptermcap
- Tells screen
to create a .termcap file in its socket directory.encoding
- Sets the character encoding for the current window.flow
- Sets the current window's flow control mode.gr
- Sets or toggles GR charset switching.monitor
- Set the monitoring status for the current window.multiuser
- Enables or disables multiuser mode.nonblock
- Sets or toggles screen
's behavior when a display stops receiving characters.partial
- Sets whether screen
should draw the entire window when switching windows.printcmd
- Shows or sets the command used for handling the ANSI print sequence ESC [ 5 i
.reset
- Resets the current window's virtual terminal settings to their default settings.silence
- Set the silence monitoring status for the current window.silencewait
- Set the silence timeout for all windows.term
- Changes the value of $TERM that screen
passes to its windows' child processes.termcap
- Tweaks termcap entries for either screen
's interaction with the display terminal or for the virtual terminal presented to child programs.terminfo
- Tweaks terminfo entries for either screen
's interaction with the display terminal or for the virtual terminal presented to child programs.termcapinfo
- Tweaks termcap and terminfo entries for either screen
's interaction with the display terminal or for the virtual terminal presented to child programs.utf8
- Changes or toggles the encoding on the current window.wrap
- Sets or toggles the current window's line wrap setting.writelock
- Sets writelock mode for current window.zmodem
- Sets screen
's handling of zmodem communcations.