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Detach screen in screen?

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Mar 15, 20263929 views

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I like to have a screen session set up with two windows side by side (Ctrl+A | key combo). The issue is that sometimes I need to run a server that starts a screen session in the foreground of one of my screen sessions. So now I have a screen session in another screen session. When I try to detach t…

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The screen man page explains So you should be able to detach the inner screen by typing C-a a d (without spaces).

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