Attach to 'screen' session with creating a new screen window

I found something on the mailing list, thank you tuxuday :)

I'm doing it now this way:

#!/bin/bashscreen -X screen -t NEWWINDOW  # create new window (switches existing attached terminal)sleep 0.1screen -X other  # switch existing attached terminal back to its old windowsleep 0.1gnome-terminal -e 'screen -x -p NEWWINDOW'  # connect to new window

I'm not sure about those sleeps, maybe they aren't necessary in all environments, but I can wait those 0.2s easily.

My .bash_aliases is changing the screen window title with a delay, so the awkward NEWWINDOW won't stick for long (and thus not hinder further calls to this script).

Add new detached window to sesion_name and run command

screen -S sesion_name -x -X screen bash -c 'command; exec bash'

To choose a window to join, use the -p option. Giving + will create a new one, so your command is simply:

screen -x session_name -p +

This is documented on the man page:

-p n̲u̲m̲b̲e̲r̲_o̲r̲_n̲a̲m̲e̲|̲-̲|̲=̲|̲+̲

Preselect a window. This is useful when you want to reattach to a  specific windor or you want to send a command via the "-X" option  to a specific window. As with screen's select commant, "-" selects  the blank window. As a special case for reattach, "=" brings up the  windowlist on the blank window.