GNU Screen: one window per screen or one screen with multiple windows?

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Published on 2010-05-04T18:25:15Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 18:28 UTC
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I've inherited a few sys admin tasks recently and am trying to wrap my head around using screen. The way the previous guy left it, there are four screen sessions running, some of which have two or three windows running within.

It doesn't appear that he was using any particular convention, so I ask you: Is it better to have each process in its own screen session, or better to group similar processes into a single screen? Or something different entirely?

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