Regions

Screen has the ability to display more than one window on the user's display. This is done by splitting the screen in regions, which can contain different windows.

• Split: Split a region into two
• Focus: Change to the next region
• Only: Delete all other regions
• Remove: Delete the current region
• Resize: Grow or shrink a region
• Caption: Control the window's caption
• Fit: Resize a window to fit the region

Split

Command: split

(C-a S)
Split the current region into two new ones. All regions on the display are resized to make room for the new region. The blank window is displayed on the new region.

Focus

Command: focus

(C-a Tab)
Move the input focus to the next region. This is done in a cyclic way so that the top region is selected after the bottom one. If no subcommand is given it defaults to `down'. `up' cycles in the opposite order, `top' and `bottom' go to the top and bottom region respectively. Useful bindings are (j and k as in vi)

bind j focus down
bind k focus up
bind t focus top
bind b focus bottom

Only

Command: only

(C-a Q)
Kill all regions but the current one.

Remove

Command: remove

(C-a X)
Kill the current region. This is a no-op if there is only one region.

Resize

Command: resize [(+/-)lines]

(none)
Resize the current region. The space will be removed from or added to the region below or if there's not enough space from the region above.

resize +N       increase current region height by N
resize -N       decrease current region height by N
resize  N       set current region height to N
resize  =       make all windows equally high
resize  max     maximize current region height
resize  min     minimize current region height

Caption

Command: caption always|splitonly [string]

Command: caption string [string]

(none)
This command controls the display of the window captions. Normally a caption is only used if more than one window is shown on the display (split screen mode). But if the type is set to always, screen shows a caption even if only one window is displayed. The default is `splitonly'.

The second form changes the text used for the caption. You can use all string escapes (see section String Escapes). Screen uses a default of `%3n %t'.

You can mix both forms by providing the string as an additional argument.

Fit

Command: fit

(C-a F)
Change the window size to the size of the current region. This command is needed because screen doesn't adapt the window size automatically if the window is displayed more than once.

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