It’s always annoying trying to remember what pid maps to a screen session, but it’s possible to actually name the session.
When starting a screen session, you can start it with arguments:
screen -S sessionname
Or within a current screen session, you can do:
C-a :
sessionname your_session_name
Now when you do a screen -ls
, your sessions show up with meaningful names:
There are screens on:
12117.irc (Detached)
9905.code (Multi, detached)
14850.projectx (Multi, attached)
3 Sockets in /var/run/screen/S-lindsay.
And connecting to them is as easy as:
screen -r projectx