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 D?a 31. 3. 2013 11:47 Tony Baechler wrote / nap?sal(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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
