Recently I wrote a GNU Screen session saver. Download: http://github.com/skoneka/screen-session/downloads A little howto: http://adb.cba.pl/gnu-screen-tips-page-my.html#howto-screen-session
It currently supports saving of: directories, programs, layouts, scrollbacks, titles ( what else it could save? ) It recognizes groups and regular windows. Currently there is no support for serial and telnet window types (because so far I didn't manage to use them) but they would be probably easy to add. screen-session saves directories and programs by directly reading /proc filesystem ( it reads cwd, exe and cmdline ) and sorts them by parent pid. There is no "stuffing" and there is totally no interaction with programs in windows. After session loading, in every new window starts screen-session-primer (small C program) which displays list of processes and asks user what to do(whether to start none, part of or all window's processes). There is also a blacklist for programs which may not be started. Basic usage is dead simple. To save run inside saved session: $ screen-session --save To load last saved run inside another session: $ screen-session --load You can save any running session: $ screen-session --save --in PID --out mysavedsession And load it in any session: $ screen-session --load --out PID --in mysavedsession All loadad session are wrapped in restore_[name] groups so they do not clutter the workspace. By default all sessions are saved in $HOME/.screen-sessions. More examples in README. This session saver requires a recent GNU Screen version (git) with a trivial patch. screen-session.diff changes: - add "tty" command ( necessary for reading /proc filesystem using lsof ) - make "layout" "group" "maxwin" "sessionname" queryable Question to maintainers: Could you consider making more commands queryable by default? (especially those which only require adding CAN_QUERY in comm.c) Regards -- Artur Skonecki http://adb.cba.pl _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
