Re: How to give each screen session a description?

> Yes, Ctrl-A :sessionname NAME Thanks. A related question. In order to display session name with screen, I can do 'C-a :sessionname' according to the manual. But I don't see any shortcut in the DEFAULT KEY BINDINGS section of the man page. Is there any shortcut in case I miss anything? -- Rega

Re: How to give each screen session a description?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Bruno Cudini wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 06:13:22PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 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. >>

How to give each screen session a description?

Hi, 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? ~$ screen -x There are several suitable screens on: 4286.pts-35.mark

Why the delete key is not working?

My local machine is mac. I ssh to a romote linux machine, where I run screen. But the 'delete' key is not working anymore. To delete anything I have to use 'x'. Is it designed this way in screen? Is there a way to enable the 'delete' key? -- Regards, Peng