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The main selling point of screen is not actually the way he uses it in the video, to manage multiple windows, but the way you can disconnect and reconnect to an
by junkbit 16y ago
The main selling point of screen is not actually the way he uses it in the video, to manage multiple windows, but the way you can disconnect and reconnect to any screen session from any computer using the screen daemon and ssh.
For example start a bittorrent download running in screen at home and then monitor it from work, reload X without loosing your work, or the canonical example: idle in irc all day without being disconnected.
- feydr 16y agoyeh this is useful detach/re-attach, however, I usually have a screen session opened locally so when I'm doing remote work I typically open several ssh connections since they are cheap -- anything I want to put into the background I do so the typical way and not through screen -- good point though