Re: all apps in my screen lost across X reboot

hi Kevin:
thanks and that sounds exactly what my issue was.
I'll try start screen from outside of X and see if it is ok.

regards
ping

On 07/07/2011 09:37 AM, Kevin Van Workum wrote:
> Ping,
>
> If you start screen from an X session,  then screen is a child of X. 
> So when X dies, so does screen. To do what you want, you would have to 
> start screen outside of X.
>
> There are many ways to do this. For example, you could start a screen 
> session at boot time from rc.local. Or you could just switch to a 
> different tty (e.g. ctrl-alt-F2) and start a new screen session there. 
> Then go back to X (ctrl-alt-F7) and reattach to that screen session.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, ping <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     guys:
>     I use screen for years and I'm happy with it.
>     one thing annoyed me a lot is everytime when i need to reload X
>     (it's not stable), and when I come back and find everything in my
>     screen (vim, news, mutt, telnet, ssh,...everything) also went
>     away, the session/windows are there though. searching the internet
>     I haven't got much useful info.
>     people are saying they use screen to get persistent sessions
>     across X...how can i archive that?
>
>     thanks!
>
>     regards
>     ping
>
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