On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/4/2011 12:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >> I think you're fundamentally failing to understand my operating mode. >> >> Local system == Linux === my administrative center. >> >> Remote hosts. May be a dozen. May be 20,000. Or some number between >> or beyond. > > After reading this again, I'm wondering if you thought I was advocating > running NX sessions directly to some large number of remote hosts. I > didn't mean that. I just park a desktop session in a convenient place > that doesn't happen to be at my own desk but I can pretend like it is, > and almost all of my remote work originates from this desktop, mostly in > terminal windows. > > I do have a few other sessions for work in a remote lab, access to VM's > and some experimental stuff, but those are special cases where it is > handy to only connect as needed. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com Can you stop please? This thread is related to 'screen', not the intricate details of using NX. In the thread context, the initial suggestion of NX was useful, but we're beyond that now. Some people like GUIs (NX), others like command line (screen). Next topic.