on 21:24 Thu 03 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikesell@gmail.com) wrote:
On 3/3/11 7:48 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
I do like the way gnome collapses the icons in the task bar when you have enough of them - and pops up the list so you can see it. It makes it easy to find the terminal session connected to some particular remote host.
WindowMaker has a windowlist. Even better. I usually last 1-4 hours when I periodically try GNOME. KDE and XFCE I might last a few days. Then it's back to the One True Window Manager.
I'm really just fine with terminal windows and SSH-forwarded apps if those are necessary.
But why do you need screen, then?
Terminal multiplexing, session persistance, scrollback/logging, split screen (top running in the top panel, shell underneath, etc.), workflow organization (similar processes are grouped in a screen session).
I'm writing this mail in mutt, in a screen session with multiple mailboxes open, each to its own screen window. It's like a multi-tabbed GNOME or KDE terminal, except that the session persists even if the controlling terminal is killed, or X dies altogether.
Screen is one of those amazingly powerful Linux tools, once you stumble across it.