On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 12:32:55PM -0600, Rhys Ulerich wrote: > I'd like to manually tell screen to fire up login shells in each > window. Please note I do not want to change my ~/.screenrc. > > >From reading screen --help it seems like invoking > screen -s -/bin/bash > should do that as I expect it to work like the command > :shell -bin/bash > does within an existing session. > > Seemingly, it does not. Meaning that the latter setting causes new > screen windows to include login shells while the former command line > does not cause the first window to be a login shell.
You write that the *first* window is not a login shell. What about new screen windows created after that? Perhaps the first window's command is already specified via a screen command in your .screenrc? screen -s -/bin/bash works for me, but I have: Screen version 4.01.00devel (GNU) 2-May-06 David _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
