How to go about closing a stalled screen tab (the machine is no longer reachable) ?
asked Aug 6, 2012 at 10:49
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try to kill command.
- select stalled window (
C-a:select <stalled window number>) - send kill command (
C-a:kill)
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2at least for my screen version, I get a message that :kill is ambiguous. :kill-window works, though. Commented May 30, 2016 at 17:41
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The most simple and direct way, which has always worked for me, is
C-a, k
Assuming you are using the OpenSSH client to connect, you can type Enter ~ . to close the connection.
To list the other SSH client escape commands, type Enter ~ ? when connected.
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1Why the down vote? This addresses the "machine is no longer reachable" aspect of the question directly. Sure you can do other things to close a remote connection (eg: shut down your computer), but that doesn't directly address the stalled remote connection.– TysonCommented Nov 2, 2015 at 20:40
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1Thanks I had a runaway shell command, screen would not respond to any Ctrl + A command, but this worked. Commented Dec 11, 2021 at 21:43
When you have an unresponsive tab, oftentimes you cannot navigate into the tab itself; to kill a stalled tab/window from another tab:
C-a: at "<tabNum>#" kill, i.e. to kill tab 7, C-a: at "7#" kill
To kill an individual tab in a detached GNU Screen session:
screen -XS <sessID> -p <tabNum> kill
Hope someone finds this useful...
