screen command: C-a C-\ does not work

Question

I'm on a mac, and I also tried on Linux too, but the command C-a C-\ does not work for me.

It's supposed to kill all windows and terminate screen.

C-a C-\ (quit) Kill all windows and terminate screen.

Is there another way to kill it?

I also tried C-a \ which was suggested in #screen on freenode...but that didn't work either.

(Yes, I'm hitting "Ctrl" for 'C' )

Here is my screenrc: https://gist.github.com/chovy/42ee1f38f8e5907a46b4

If I remove my .screenrc, it works...but something in my config is blocking it.

not to ask the stupid question, but you ARE hitting control, and not C, right? — Russell Uhl, Jul 15 '13 at 17:57
just checking the obvious :) I once spent 2 weeks diagnosing a video card problem before i noticed the DVI cable wasn't plugged in all the way. — Russell Uhl, Jul 15 '13 at 18:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 15 '13 at 19:17

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In the link you posted, look at line 284: the backslash has been bound to do nothing. Remove that overwrite and you should be able to use it to quit.

answered Jul 15 '13 at 19:17

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '14 at 22:51

Although the accepted answer is likely the best answer to your question, the actual question asked was "Is there another way to kill it?"

There are a couple of 'screen' ways to kill a specific screen session from the command line (non-interactively).

1) send a 'quit' command:

screen -X -S "sessionname" quit

2) send a Ctrl-C to a screen session running a script:

screen -X -S "sessionname" stuff "^C"

In both cases, you would need to use 'screen -ls' to find the session name of the screen session you want to kill ... if there is only one screen session running, you won't need to specify the -S "sessionname" parameter.

screen command: C-a C-\ does not work

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