I would first name your session something informative like "development" or "testing" you can do that sending a commands to screen with C - a : sessionname DEV Then when you reconnect it would be screen -r DEV
You could also just add a line to your .screenrc file. There is also another solution. You said that the scren -x -r is reconnecting you to the same session so I am assuming that you are establishing connections to the same host. Why dont you just have all your terminals in one screen session? Then you would only need to login once and you could move around and do everything from the keyboard in one putty session. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Adam Kellas <adam.kel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- RJ
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