I personally use screen in a relatively "simple" way. I don't use splits, but I do occasionally use `screen -x` to have multiple views of the same screen sessi

I personally use screen in a relatively "simple" way. I don't use splits, but I do occasionally use `screen -x` to have multiple views of the same screen session. My biggest use of screen is for running a persistent Irssi session on my server, and connecting to that from whatever terminal or mobile device I happen to be sitting in front of. In that case, I have just a couple active windows, but only one that I use 95% of the time. I have a similar persistent screen session on my work machine for running Irssi's SILC client to chat with co-workers. I also use screen for my primary workflow, because a lot of my development takes place on servers. I'll start a screen session on each server, and create a new window for each type of task I'm performing. Eg, I have a window each for `htop`, mongodb console, vim, git, and for running the program I'm working on, plus a few others for one-off tasks like installing a new package or editing a system configuration file. Some tips I have include: - Set up a nice .screenrc file, and make yourself a customized "caption" line, which will give you a status bar of sorts that will list all your open windows. Mine is `caption always "%{= dd}%{+b ky}%{+ .b} $LOGNAME@%H %{-} %{.y}%-w%50>%{+ Kg} %n %t %{-}%+w%<%{-}"` - Similary, either get in the habit of naming your windows, or set up your shell to properly report commands to screen so it can automatically name them based on the command you've run. My zshell config does this for both screen and gnome-terminal: https://github.com/jreese/oh-my-zsh/blob/jreese/custom/screen-titles.zsh https://github.com/jreese/oh-my-zsh/blob/jreese/custom/scree... - Ctrl-a, Ctrl-a is a great combination for "alt-tabbing" between windows - I set my least-used window to #0, as it's the "hardest" number to hit after ctrl-a, and I put my most used windows between #1 and #5 for easy one-handed switching. - Ctrl-a Escape is the easiest way to get into copy mode to view your scrollback buffer. Ctrl-a [ is equivalent, but IMO using escape instead allows me to start moving my right hand to the cursor/paging keys while I'm still using my left hand to enter copy mode.