Re: Start multiple screen-sessions per script

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 10:59:44AM +0100, Frank Röhm wrote:
> is it possible to start multiple screen sessions with each session
> with an own command which is immediately started in one script? I
> want to start only one screen, and in this screen I need many
> sessions (normally started with ^A,C for create),

I'm not sure what's the correct term for it, but it's surely not
"screen session". What you mean is all scripts running the _same_
"screen session". I'm tempted to call it a "screen window", but since
there can be screen windows without any command running inside, I'd
expect that there must be a separate term for what holds a process
which again can be inside a "screen window".

What I did to solve this for myself was to write a script which
generates a temporary .screenrc (named differently) which basically
contains the line "source ~/.screenrc" and then one "screen …" line
per command I want to run in its own screen window inside that
session.

After the file has been created, the same script which created the
temporary .screenrc calls "screen -c that.temporary.screenrc" and
deletes the temporary .screenrc afterwards again.

The script where I implemented this is at
https://github.com/xtaran/ratpoison-desktop/blob/master/bin/terms#L34

                Kind regards, Axel
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