screen to tmux

Marcos Dione — Thu, 29 May 2025 09:36:33 GMT

I use screen a lot, but not much of it. Given recent developments around several CVEs I decided to try to learn the tmux equivalent of what I use. Both have the concept of windows. Both allow rebinding commands to keys, but these are the default bindings. tmux also has subcommands like tmux ls. Both support splitting the window; screen calls the areas 'regions'; tmux calls them panels.

Feature	`screen`	`tmux`
list active sessions	`screen -ls`	`tmux ls`
new named session	`screen -dR foo`	`tmux -L foo`
reattach a session	`screen -dR foo`	`tmux -L foo attach`
control key	C-a	C-b
detach	d	d
new window	c	c
next window	n	n
previous window	p	p
split horizontally	S	"
split vertically	\|	%
go to next pane	TAB	o
rename session	¹	$

sessions can't be renamed in screen. ↩

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screen to tmux