[SOLVED] screen mirrored in terminal hotkey

leo2501 · 2008-08-16 10:56:13

hi! im using urxvt and xterm, and i realized that everytime i restart X i open 3-4 terminals and then mirror my screen session wit lot of screens in it...

So i was wondering if there's some way to make a hotkey for use in say dwm to open a urxvt with screen mirrored to it

i have this in ~/.bashrc

### Screen Function Mirror/List :: sx ###
function sx {
if [[ $1 ]]; then
    screen -x $1
else
    screen -ls
fi
}

It shows me a thing like this when attached:

[aleyscha@aleyscha 1 ~]$ sx 
There is a screen on:
    4565.pts-3.aleyscha    (Attached)
1 Socket in /tmp/screens/S-aleyscha.

and it shows me a thing like this when attached:

[aleyscha@aleyscha 1 ~]$ sx 
There is a screen on:
    4565.pts-3.aleyscha    (Dettached)
1 Socket in /tmp/screens/S-aleyscha.

Thankyou 4 read

Last edited by leo2501 (2008-08-17 12:50:45)

tomk · 2008-08-16 11:08:20

Not sure what you mean by 'mirror' in this context, but if you want to run screen, or any other command, when you launch urxvt, use the -e flag.

leo2501 · 2008-08-16 11:33:39

tomk wrote:

Not sure what you mean by 'mirror' in this context, but if you want to run screen, or any other command, when you launch urxvt, use the -e flag.

sorry, i mean, to start screen with this option:
-x Attach to a not detached screen session. (Multi display mode).

so when i open a terminal i need the screen session number, and i don't know how to get it in a script i get (with screen -ls) the attached and dettached sessions, and i have always only one, and that one i want to have attached with the -x session that allows you to have it attached to several terminals

flx · 2008-08-16 12:23:53

If I understand you correctly, something like this in your .bashrc could work:

case $TERM in
        xterm*|rxvt*)
                if screen -ls | grep -q Main; then
                        screen -xr Main
                else
                        screen -S Main
                fi
        ;;
esac

Last edited by flx (2008-08-16 12:24:48)

leo2501 · 2008-08-16 14:36:10

flx wrote:

If I understand you correctly, something like this in your .bashrc could work:

case $TERM in
        xterm*|rxvt*)
                if screen -ls | grep -q Main; then
                        screen -xr Main
                else
                        screen -S Main
                fi
        ;;
esac

Wow! that's perfect! the only thing is that i want to make it behave like a keybinding, so i can still have a non-screen terminal, so i think i need to make it a function, something like:

function scr {
case $TERM in
        xterm*|rxvt*)
                if screen -ls | grep -q Main; then
                        screen -xr Main
                else
                        screen -S Main
                fi
        ;;
esac
}

so i can add a keybinding in dwm to start a "urxvt -e scr" command isn't it?

leo2501 · 2008-08-17 12:50:15

well it's done THANKYOU flx! i done it with this:

get_screen script:

#!/bin/bash
if screen -ls | grep -q Main; then
    screen -xr Main
    else
    screen -S Main
fi

and this in dwm's config.h file:

...
/* commands */
static const char *termscreen[]   = { "urxvt", "-e", "get_screen", NULL };;
...
static Key keys[] = {
{ MODKEY|ControlMask,           XK_Return, spawn,          {.v = termscreen } },
...

I love dwm and screen

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[SOLVED] screen mirrored in terminal hotkey

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