Gnu screen: kill a frozen tab

Question

How to go about closing a stalled screen tab (the machine is no longer reachable) ?

Answer 1

try to kill command.

1. select stalled window ( C-a :select <stalled window number> )
2. send kill command ( C-a :kill )

Answer 2

The most simple and direct way, which has always worked for me, is

C-a, k

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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...