Re: How to give each screen session a description?

Peng Yu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen.user
Message-ID <CABrM6w=crMQYm8NAxfz3G1WojTX8awDm0aTJBDMVx40dLNBcig@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Bruno Cudini <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

Is there a way to change the name after screen is started?

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Regards,
Peng
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