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chrispoole

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Registered: 2008-12-30

Posts: 121

autostart screen session after running startx?

I have the following in my .zshrc:

if [[ $STY = '' ]] then screen -d -R chris; fi

This works great when using GDM: I log in, and upon opening a terminal, I have my screen session. I can then open another terminal and the screen session is transferred across, detached in the previous terminal window.

If I don't use GDM, screen starts when I log in (in framebuffer mode?), as I'd expect. But then when I type 'startx' and open a terminal in GNOME, my screen session isn't transferred.

Is there a way to get screen to start in gnome-terminal, after running 'startx'?

sjovan

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Registered: 2009-04-24

Posts: 23

Re: autostart screen session after running startx?

if you got a screen running with the same user screen -d -r should do the trick in gnome-terminal.

chrispoole

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Registered: 2008-12-30

Posts: 121

Re: autostart screen session after running startx?

It does, I'd just rather not type it.

Using GDM as my login method, gnome-terminal automatically grabs the screen session (because it's not already started?).

Using startx method, gnome-terminal doesn't get the screen session.

I just wonder if there's a way to get the first outcome with the second method?

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: autostart screen session after running startx?

doesn't gnome have an autostart? Couldn't you write a small script to open a terminal window and attatch to a screen session after gnome boots. I assume your using gnome.