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Is there a terminal logout that does something like what GNU Screen does?

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As most of you know GNU Screen is a nice tool that enables you to do something like:

One other good use for the detach and reattach is as a console-mode
"remote desktop" feature. You can detach from a screen session at
work, shell into the machine from home, and reattach. Very, very
handy. With a bit of extra work, you can even have a number of
terminals all attached to the same session--great for collaborative
efforts and meetings.

Now Im curious is there a way to do that without Screen. Aka instead of logut i type magiclogout and next time I login I get my old sesion(if OS hasnt reeboted ofc)

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answered 2 Years ago bunsistent · Accepted Answer

byobu is based on screen ; it has a menu option to make it your default shell.

You can either exit as normal or detach with alt-A, D as you would with plain screen, and your session will be waiting when you log in again.

In addition it adds a number of keys for terminal management, F2 to create a new terminal, and F3 and F4 to move between windows, and a status bar with a number of useful indicators like outstanding package updates.

It's installed by default on Ubuntu Server builds, and rapidly becomes my default terminal on most servers I manage.

As I said, byobu depends on screen to work though... I'm not aware of any way of resuming a session other than having a process stay running on the target machine.

Edit : byobu will also wrap tmux (which is the default on newer versions of Ubuntu). You don't have to do anything in most cases - it will just use the default terminal multiplexer.