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> I feel like most consumer OSes have done little to try to unify or provide options in the OS level Yeah, I've always thought it was weird that the X11 window
by cxr 6y ago
> I feel like most consumer OSes have done little to try to unify or provide options in the OS level
Yeah, I've always thought it was weird that the X11 window management protocol wasn't extended to accommodate native tabs, so it's always handled in-client.
> I've recommended dtach
dtach is great! I've always wondered why people were so enamored with screen and tmux, when I don't really want a second, full-fledged terminal emulator running inside my desktop terminal emulator—I just want to detach from sessions. Most importantly, though, I want this to be baked in, ideally at the system level, but would settle for dtach-like integration with gnome-terminal; whatever allows this to be done lazily, without needing the foresight to use dtach from the beginning—just like you're not required to specify ahead of time whether you want to use job control (Ctrl-Z) at the time that you start the process.
It's a big shame. Two examples of natural growth with high utility that have just never happened, because we're supposed to stay stuck at the state things were in in the early 90s or something.