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chrispoole

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Registered: 2008-12-30

Posts: 121

GNU screen loads in shell, but not in X shells...

I have set zsh to start screen when it starts, so immediately as I log in (regular Arch prompt, no DM).

The problem is that if I run startx to get me into GNOME, running the terminal in there doesn't present me with the same screen session. Just a regular prompt.

I guess this is because screen is already running in the background?

This didn't happen when I was using GDM.

Is there a way round this?

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: GNU screen loads in shell, but not in X shells...

Read man screen for how sessions work. There's countless ways to do it with -R -D and -x switches.

And a terminal in gnome that starts bash doesn't necessarily read bashrc, read Invocation in man bash.