creating new windows that run programs in screen.

Question

My .screenrc has some initialization code that opens some windows. It's neat.

What I want to do, while running screen is simply , with one command open a new screen window that is running a program.

It SHOULD be:

screen -t 'CADMIN' sudo cherokee-admin -b

This actually works, except that it also runs my .screenrc and opens up all of my windows in a nested screen. FAIL.

I know I could use ^c ( to create a new window ) ^cA ( to title it ) sudo cherokee-admin -b

and get the same effect, but I'd like to bring a little elegance to my life, which is why I use screen and not some multi terminal thing.

Ideas?

Answer 1

You could setup another .screenrc file that doesn't have all of the other windows in it then in your .bash_profile you could add something like:

alias scn="screen -c '.screenrc2' -t 'CADMIN' sudo cherokee-admin -b"

then all you would have to do is run $scn from the cli to open screen with the desired effect.

hope this helps

edit: Make sure you name the second .screenrc file something different (i.e. '.screenrc2')

Answer 2

Ok, I've got a somewhat palatable answer:

from the bugs page there is a discussion about problems using the screen -t invocation.

I've tried this and I find that screen -c /dev/null -t CADMIN sudo cherokee-admin -b actually works the way I originally thought it would. It's kind of nifty actually, -c calls nothing for the value of .screenrc, which does not open my glorious screen rig. I can live with this.