Screen

Disable Visual Bell

To disable the visual bell for the current screen instance, hit:

CTRL+A, CTRL+G

For a permanent fix, put the following into the ~/.screenrc file

vbell_msg "bell: window ~%" # Message for visual bell
vbellwait 2 # Seconds to pause the screen for visual bell
vbell off # Turns visual bell off

Scrollback Buffer

.screenrc

defscrollback 5000

C-a [

h - Move the cursor left by one character j - Move the cursor down by one line k - Move the cursor up by one line l - Move the cursor right by one character 0 - Move to the beginning of the current line $ - Move to the end of the current line. G - Moves to the specified line

      (defaults to the end of the buffer).

C-u - Scrolls a half page up. C-b - Scrolls a full page up. C-d - Scrolls a half page down. C-f - Scrolls the full page down.

/ - Search forward ? - Search backward

Rename Screen Session

C-a :sessionname mySessionName