Detaching one or several windows out from a screen session

**Memnon** · 10-01-2009

Hi friends,
How can i detach one or several windows out from a screen session and re-attach or resuming elsewhere in a Linux Machine.

I am working on couple of windows at one time. During the process of my work If I felt the need of copying and pasting several parts of text from different places of one window to the next window of that session.

speaking my mind it is very hectic and tiresome to copy a word then do CTRL+A N then paste it then go back to the window, copy another bunch of words and then repeat the above sequence. Isn't it possible to copy the whole at once and paste and do editing on next window, for some reason. Can't i just seperate this two sessions and work seperately on each?

**Isaac1** · 10-01-2009

You could configure different escape characters and nest separate sessions. I don't know if that's good enough, but it sounds like it may work for you.

try it ...

**Expertz** · 10-01-2009

You can use the following
# screen -x -r <id of session>
to connect to the session from another window. After doing this you can have one of the windows in the session present in one connect while switching to another of the window from the other connect.

Hope this might do the trick for you.