screen tip: How to send Ctrl a to application

Posted by vanguard33 on November 9, 2008

screen is a powerful window management tool under linux

All it’s command starts with ctrl+a ,so If you want to send ctrl+a to an application (like emacs), you can type

ctrl+a a

This tip is hard to find, so I post it.

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3 Responses to “screen tip: How to send Ctrl a to application”

Robert Massaioli said

May 29, 2010 at 3:10 am
Yes that is a really hard tip to find. Thankyou for posting it. Just trying to get another program running in a screen suffered from this too. I should mention that you can still use some directly though; like Ctrl+D.

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Jordi said

May 29, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Indeed, thanks!

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Sam said

May 18, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Thanks for the quick tip!

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