[ILUG] Re: GNU Screen

[bobb]

Brian Scanlan hath declared on Wednesday the 04 day of February 2004  :-:

> I use virtual desktops, organised losely by task (email, remote terms, scratch
> desktops for intermittant tasks, etc.). Konsole allows you to detach/reattach a
> tab, meaning I can detach a tab, move it to a task desktop (along with relevant
> konqueror tabs) and reattach when finished. This means that when working on a
> task I can alt-tab between the useful stuff...  This kinda evolved out of the
> way I was organising stuff in WindowMaker, and it changes whenever I start
> using the new KDE/GNOME.

I run screen in pretty much all of my xterms (or aterms as it happens)
on my workstation.  Means that its simple for me to log into my machine
from somewhere else on campus, or over dialup from home and check
the state of whatever I was doing in that terminal.

I'm at a stage where I know that, say, the left aterm on desktop 2
(which I always use to log into redbrick, and recieve messages) 
will always be running screen on /dev/ttyp5, so I have an alias at
home which does:

ssh -t <work-server> ssh -t <desktop> screen -x ttyp5

and *badda* *bing* there she blows...

handy...  :)

- bobb

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