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andersonbd1
Asked: 2014-11-20 06:05:56 +0800 CST

screen: how do I move a window in between 2 other windows

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In screen is there a way to put a window in between 2 others instead of swapping?

Here is what I have

1 - I want this to become #2
2 - I want this to become #3
3 - I want this to become #1

If I go to screen #3 and enter the command ":number 1", the new order is

1 - I want this to become #1
2 - I want this to become #3
3 - I want this to become #2

Obviously with one more command, I can get what I want. However, when I have 15 windows it is a major pain.

gnu-screen

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    There seems to be no single screen command to do it. However I came up with this script, that can do it by executing enough number commands in a row to do it:

    #!/bin/bash

L="$1"
for N in $(eval echo "{$1..$2}")
do
    screen -X at "$L" number "$N"
    L="$N"
done

    This can be run from any window within the screen and takes two arguments, the source and destination number of a window to be moved. The source or destination window can match your current window number.

    I could find no way to query screen about active and existing window numbers from a script. So I could not make the script default to moving the active window.

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