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9 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.

9.1 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.

9.2 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.

9.3 Only

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

9.4 Remove

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

9.5 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 21 String Escapes). Screen uses a default of `%3n %t'.

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


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