[nylug-talk] gnu-screen startup, was: Re: Text based "window manager" ??

[Mike Allred]

On 5/27/07, jh <jhlists at hirschman.net> wrote:
>
> Judd Maltin wrote:
> > gnu-screen.  I love it.  It's been around for a long time, and it's VERY
> > feature rich.  The new release has lots of cool features.
> >
> Question about screen: is it possible to launch an application as a
> particular user, and then detach - perhaps doing so from init.d startup
> scripts?
>
> The docs are pretty thin on this - any hints about how it may be done?



Something like this would work for launching a detached screen with apps in
separate windows:

screen -d -m -S myscreen
screen -S myscreen -X screen top
screen -S myscreen -X screen irssi



Thanks.
>
> jh
>
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