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GNU Screen is the big new thing for me. While old hat for many programmers, I just recently started realizing the power of it, especially detaching and reattac
by chops 16y ago
GNU Screen is the big new thing for me. While old hat for many programmers, I just recently started realizing the power of it, especially detaching and reattaching, or reattaching to a broken SSH connection.
- drKarl 16y agoI agree, GNU Screen is great... but try tmux, I do prefer this one because of the ease of splitting horizontally and vertically without the need of a patch. If you want to stick with Screen... try Byobu
- apgwoz 16y agoIs splitting terminals really that helpful? I tend to use 80 character wide, tall terminals so that I can have emacs sitting next to it (in similar dimensions). I guess if I used console emacs, having one terminal with it split would be fine, but when I'm using a tiling window manager, I don't necessarily see the benefit..
- drKarl 16y agoWell, I sometimes have to work in a server without X Windows, but with framebuffer enabled and tmux it's a pleasure to work on it.
- apgwoz 16y agoI guess it's been a long time since I've worked on a system without X. :)
- silentbicycle 16y agotmux has tiling window manager layouts (the same ones dwm and XMonad use) built into it. Having two narrower columns visible at the same time in the text console (with easy copy/pasting) has been really helpful for me on several occasions.