> I tried to forget the incompatibilities in different old terminal types > after about everything settled on xterm compatibility. Instead of > running screen, can you run a desktop session under freenx on a server > somewhere and run everything in terminal windows there (even ssh > sessions that go elsewhere)? If you haven't tried it, the NX client has > great performance with freenx, even remotely, and lets you > disconnect/reconnect with everything still running. Assuming you have > something locally that can run the NX client (windows/mac/linux) you > also get mouse based cut/paste and the only down side is a slightly > longer time to do the initial screen refresh when you connect. Hmm, this sounds like an interesting possibility. I don't think we have x-windows installed on any of our server machines but I can look into it. You have gotten the gist of my thoughts here though; being able to return to something I was working on before, without having to log onto every machine again!