I have to work inside two environment. One Windows (local) and one Linux (remote). I've installed the screen linux utility in both. I'm able to open a screen on my windows, then in one tab, I opened a ssh connection to the linux remote and I start another screen.
Sample
linux -- |0 linux remote 0| 1 linux remote 1
windows-- |0 linux | 9 windows I can switch between "linux remote 0" and "linux remote 1" using Atl+. This is configured in .screenrc (bindkey "^[0" select 0) How could I switch to "9 windows"?
8 Answers
Ah. screen-in-screen... very Inception. We need to go deeper...
That being said, you can send a ctrl-A to a nested screen by doing Ctrl-AA.
2Ctrl+A, 9 or Ctrl+A, " (that's a double-quote) and then select it from a list.
1As mentioned by rocka84 but for the second command you don't need to press Ctrl again. Like for creating a new screen in nested terminal you need to do like this Ctrl+a, a, c.
When I run screen in another screen, I use a different command character for each.
Rather than the default ctrl-A, I use ctrl-space (the null character, escape ^@^@ in .screenrc) for the outer one, and ctrl-] (escape ^]^] in .screenrc) for the inner one.
If you don't do that, you can send a single command character to the inner nested screen session (or to any other command running under screen) by doubling it.
As mentioned, you can send Ctrl+A to the inner screen with Ctrl+A A. Just do this twice to switch the inner screen.
Make sure to release Ctrl for the second (and forth) A
Btw: This goes for all control sequences of the inner screen, just hit Ctrl+A before all Keys and drop the Ctrl for sequence keys. Easier to show than to describe:
Ctrl+A A C creates a new inner screen.
You can either press Ctrl+a, followed by Shift+ '(single quote)' and choose the screen you want.
Or you can jus hit Ctrl+a(double tap) to return to previous screen.
You may use like below
- for next screen and
Ctrl + A n
for previous screen
Ctrl + A p
Marc B's answer seemed to work, except it only juggled between the current and last window in the inner screen session. The following did allow to have the commonly expected behavior of Ctrl+A inside the contained session...
Ctrl+A A
And for example, when cycling through the windows...
Ctrl+A A [N,P]
