Re: How to give each screen session a description?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 06:13:22PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:33:14AM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> > When I run the following command I got a number for each session.
> > Those numbers are not descriptive. Is there a way to associated some
> > string to each session, so that I can easily remember what each
> > session is doing?
> 
> Yeah,, it's possible although I can't remember how by mind, but the
> wrapper "screenie" uses this feature:
> 
>   http://pubwww.fhzh.ch/~mgloor/screenie.html

I think you should try naming your screen session at startup, with -S :
screen -S whatever
[detach]
screen -x whatever