Screen help

[Tony Baechler]

That's what I use.  It still opens a new shell which isn't what I want. 
Also, I get an error if there is no screen running or if there is more than 
one detached session.

On 3/31/2013 12:58 AM, Peter wrote:
> Hello,
> use screen -r which resumes existing session, and run new screen if
> there is not a session to resume
> screen -r || screen
> May be there is a better solution, im using this trick.
> With best
> Peter
>
>
>
> Dňa 31. 3. 2013 11:47 Tony Baechler  wrote / napísal(a):
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know some of you here use the "screen" package.  I'm having a slight
>> annoyance and I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.  First, I don't like
>> tmux because it seems to use more memory and shows an annoying clock
>> which seems to interfere with console output.  It reads the time when
>> the clock is updated and makes it hard to review what's on the screen.
>> I'm sure there is a way around this, but Screen is older and more
>> established, so that's what I use here.
>>
>> What I want to do is always have Screen start when I log into a shell.
>> It doesn't need to start for subshells since I can create new windows as
>> needed.  If I already have a detached session, I would like it to
>> reattach automatically.  I added a line to /etc/bash_profile so it would
>> start for all users which is what I want.  The problem is that it always
>> launches a new shell when I log in, so I have to log out twice.  I first
>> press ^D which ends the Screen session and ^D again to actually close my
>> ssh connection. Is there a way that I don't have to do this?  I could
>> make screen my shell, but I don't know if that's a good idea.  What do
>> other people do?  I read the man page and I don't see a way to get
>> Screen to become the parent shell without launching a new shell when it
>> starts.
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas and suggestions.
>>
>>
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Tony Baechler
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