I believe the information which session was used last is already present. There should be no need for a .screen.lastsession file. Here is a bash script, that looks at the mtime of each socket and reattaches to the last modified one:
https://gist.github.com/jnweiger/20e54876839fb81e14e50b9eaf9d3915 On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM Vegard Svanberg <veg...@svanberg.no> wrote: > * Thorsten Glaser <t...@debian.org> [2025-05-05 23:08]: > > > how can I find out the last recently used screen, to help a friend… > > I don't think screen has the tmux equivalent of hooks... > > I haven't thought this through, but two alternatives spring to mind: > > A) Add this feature to screen > > Shouldn't be too hard I think... just something which writes the session > name to a (configurable) file somewhere upon creating, attaching and > detaching. > > B) A heartbeat script > > Create a new (hidden) screen window and run something like: > > while true ; sleep 5 ; echo "$STY" > "$HOME/.screen.lastsession" > > Obviously this would still run when the screen is detached, so you'd > have to add some logic to detect that and pause the update. > > You could possible add something in .screenrc to spawn this > automatically. > > Personally, I think I'd patch screen and contribute the code. > > Warmly, > > Vegard > > -- > Vegard Svanberg <veg...@svanberg.no> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)] > > >
