Comments on: Silly Things I do: vol. 2

By: delor

delor — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:58:09 +0000

Before commenting about anything read manual. “C-a d” and “C-a C-d” does the same thing.

By: freelikegnu

freelikegnu — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:05:49 +0000

I just close the terminal window. I wonder how bad that is? Whenever I log back in and screen -rd everything is fine, though.

By: arakoczy

arakoczy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:38:00 +0000

Okay, so I just use CTRL+D to close a terminal anyway, not “exit”.

maybe that will help. I believe a ctrl+d does a logout by default.

By: Malcolm Parsons

Malcolm Parsons — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:57:13 +0000

exit doesn’t kill screen for me.

Other key sequences to try:
enter ~ .
or
^a ^d ^d ^d

By: schwuk

schwuk — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:43:02 +0000

Why not Ctrl+a, shift+d, shift+d (also known as power detach)? This will detach your screen session and disconnect your ssh session, leaving you back at the local terminal.

By: woot

woot — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:20:33 +0000

You should just make an alias for

ssh user@server.com -t screen -RD

Then to disconnect, you simply do a ctrl-a d, and your back to your local machine.

By: RainCT

RainCT — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:42:24 +0000

What do you have against Ctrl+D?

By: EvilDead

EvilDead — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:26:47 +0000

To detach a screen session, it’s “ctrl+a d”, not “ctrl+a ctrl+d”.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:18:44 +0000

Just hit ctrl+a, and without taking your finger off ctrl, keep mashing d till it all dies. Much easier than this ‘exit’ and ‘logout’ nonsense I keep hearing about.

By: Tiago

Tiago — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:31:46 +0000

Weird, as I always exit+exit and never had a problem.