I often use idiosyncratic screen setups with very specifically-purposed windows. I support this behavior with a special config file that launches screen with c

I often use idiosyncratic screen setups with very specifically-purposed windows. I support this behavior with a special config file that launches screen with certain windows pre-loaded for certain uses: source /home/mcantor/.screenrc chdir $SANDBOX/src screen 0:svn screen 1:lib screen 2:nosetests stuff "activate_environment\015" screen 3:ipython stuff "activate_environment\015ipython\015" screen 4: select 0 I use stuff because it's the most straightforward way to send commands with carriage returns (015 in octal) to a window. I make this even more effortless by using a special alias in my .bashrc: alias scd='screen -c /home/mcantor/.screenrc-dev' I also use a few other aliases to support common uses: alias scr='screen -rd' alias scx='screen -x' alias lsc='screen -list' Also, don't forget the very useful -S switch: screen -S someproject Or, you can use Ctrl-a :sessionname, if you're already within a session, to rename it. That way, screen -list and screen -r can use your sessionnames, and you don't have to parse or remember the process ID's.