Re: screen inside of screen

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:19AM -0700, Shane Hickey wrote:
>Jason White <[email protected]> [2004-03-09 10:47]:
>>   You can send a literal ctrl-a by typing "ctrl-a a".
>
>Yes, I understand that, but that doesn't do what I'm trying to
>accomplish, unless I'm bungling it.  Let's say I start an Xterm session
>on machine1.  My .bashrc on machine1 starts screen.  Then I ssh to
>machine2.  My .bashrc on machine2 also starts screen.  If I want to
>detach my screen from machine2 (so that it shows up as a detached screen
>whenever I ssh back into it), "ctrl-a a d" doesn't do this.

  Can I assume that ctrl-a is your screen escape sequence on both 
  sessions?

>All it does is print "d".

  Sounds like you're using a different escape sequence on machine2.

  I just duplicated what I believe to be the same scenarion.  Started
  screen in an xterm on "local" machine.  ssh'd into another machine,
  started screen.  Both of my screen sessions are using the escape
  sequence of ctrl-a.  If I do "ctrl-a c" I get another shell on the
  "local" machine.  If I do "ctrl-a a c" then I get another shell on the
  remote machine.  Now, I can detach the remote session with "ctrl-a a d". 
  Or, on a remote session shell I can type "screen -X detech", which 
  might work better for you.

>I know that I can just detach the screen on machine1, but I'm detaching
>the local session.  So, if I reboot machine1, I lose this session and
>if I ssh into machine2 from another session, this screen doesn't show
>up.

  I believe I understand what you're trying to do.  I routintly run 
  screen inside screen in order to retain my screen splits across 
  detach/reattach.

>This gives me "There is no screen to be detached."  However, if I wasn't
>already running screen on machine1, then I think this would work as you
>are describing.  I take full responsibility for any confusion, I'm sure
>I'm not describing this correctly.

  Well, I think I came into this thread a bit late and might have missed
  what you are trying to do initially, but I think I understand now 
  if what I've said above about your situation and me trying to
  duplicate is correct.

Keep on trying.  I'm confident we can solve your problem.
-Jason

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