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If you've customized screen's escape character to something other than Ctrl-A, then the key sequence will be quite different. :)
– slacy
Commented Mar 16, 2009 at 22:28
Yeah, you're on your own with that. <esc> a d may work; the man page is ambiguous, since it says that a sends the escape character, then clarifies that what it means by that is ctrl-A. So it's a crapshoot.
– chaos
Commented Mar 16, 2009 at 22:37
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Thanks, there we go, that's exactly what I remembered too and when I told it to my co-worker who was having this problem, he said it didn't work. Of course, now I found out he was pressing ctrl-a, ctrl-a, d, instead of ctrl-a, a, d. Voted and closed.
– Artem Russakovskii
Commented Mar 16, 2009 at 23:32
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@brandizzi: Have you tested this? Because I deeply suspect it is not the case, and that the sequence you would use is ctrl-t a d.
– chaos
Commented Oct 24, 2013 at 15:19
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@chaos have you tested this? I tried it right now and, yes, C-t t d detaches the screen inside a screen. Can you try it? Just add escape ^Tt to your ~/.screenrc.
– brandizzi
Commented Oct 24, 2013 at 16:47

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