I have a really simple use case for screen. I like to use PuTTY from my Windows laptop to Linux because PuTTY is a very nice terminal emulator. The only problem I have with this is that when the network connection drops, as in when I move around with the laptop, the PuTTY session disconnects and all my state is lost. This of course is where screen comes in; I recently discovered it and it seems very likely to solve my problem.
When I tell putty to use "screen -x -R" as the remote command it works great for one terminal window; I can reconnect to the screen session after disconnects. But my normal usage mode is to have a number of putty windows open for work in different branches or on different bugs, and with the above setting when I make a second putty session it connects to the same screen window. Bottom line, it's a very simpleminded use case; I want screen to do nothing except preserve my sessions across disconnect. I.e. if I open 3 putty sessions I want 3 different shell prompts in 3 screen windows. If I then reboot the laptop I want my first 3 putty sessions to reconnect to those existing windows (not necessarily in any order). So each putty session should attach to an existing-but-unconnected screen window if available and create one if not. I have no need for any advanced usage like switching screen windows within a putty session. Can anyone tell me the combination of flags to make this work? Thanks, and sorry if my terminology is not up to par. AK _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
