[geeks] Invoking a GNU 'screen' session as multiuser from a command line

[RichTea]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>wrote:

> On 06/16/2012 08:32 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
> > Title says is all really. GNU screen has a multi-user mode that allows
> you to
> > access a running screen session from multiple users. However I can only
> so-far
> > find any information on how to set a session as multi-user inside a
> screen
> > session itself. What I want to be able to do is invoke screen in a
> > non-interactive startup script using the '-dm' switch but have it user
> > accessible from multiple users.
> >
> > Anyone pulled that off before?
>
>
> Not in screen, but it's trivial to do in tmux.  Have you considered
> using tmux instead?
>
> I've been gradually switching all of my screen stuff over to tmux.  It's
> like screen, except ... better.  (For instance, it handles resizes more
> gracefully than screen does, and you can do things like send commands
> into a tmux session without actually connecting a terminal to it at all.)
>
>
>
One up for Tmux, its like walking in to the light when you didn't know it
was dark, well ok maybe you suspected it was dark because you could not see
the edges but you didn't think it was that dark but truly it was.


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