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roslaunch + screen

asked 2011-02-16 13:35:40 -0500

Yogi gravatar image

Has anybody had any luck in setting this up? I don't know how to tell screen to launch different ros nodes in different screen-windows of the same screen-session. I can do it manually, but i would ideally like to make it part of my boot script.

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mmwise gravatar image mmwise  ( 2011-02-17 09:34:42 -0500 )edit

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answered 2011-02-17 00:28:13 -0500

Ryohei Ueda gravatar image

I think you can use "screen -X screen -U" in the launch-prefix attribute. -X option sends a command to a running screen.

But I don't know how to set the "default" launch-prefix, you may need to edit all the node tags like below:

  < node pkg="your_pkg" type="your_prog" name="foo"
     launch-prefix="screen -X screen -U"/>
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Eric Perko gravatar image Eric Perko  ( 2011-02-17 06:44:32 -0500 )edit
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answered 2011-02-16 14:58:54 -0500

Ryohei Ueda gravatar image

updated 2011-02-16 15:33:45 -0500

does "screen -U roslaunch ..." resolve your problem?

when you run "screen -U" in a screen-window, screen will make another screen-window in your screen-session and run the command you specified.

it would be good to make an alias to "screen -U roslaunch" like below:

 $ alias slaunch="screen -U roslaunch"
 $ slaunch your_awesome_program.launch
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What I want is to launch different nodes in different screen windows. What you suggested will just lunch all the nodes specified in the launch file in one screen window.
Yogi gravatar image Yogi  ( 2011-02-16 23:24:11 -0500 )edit

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