Re: How to give each screen session a description?

[Øyvind A . Holm]

On 28 November 2011 20:02, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Bruno Cudini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 06:13:22PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:33:14AM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
>>> > When I run the following command I got a number for each session.
>>> > Those numbers are not descriptive. Is there a way to associated some
>>> > string to each session, so that I can easily remember what each
>>> > session is doing?
>>>
>>> Yeah,, it's possible although I can't remember how by mind, but the
>>> wrapper "screenie" uses this feature:
>>>
>>>   http://pubwww.fhzh.ch/~mgloor/screenie.html
>>
>> I think you should try naming your screen session at startup, with -S :
>> screen -S whatever
>> [detach]
>> screen -x whatever
>
> Is there a way to change the name after screen is started?

Yes, Ctrl-A :sessionname NAME