Quoting Gavin McCullagh (ilug_gmc at fiachra.ucd.ie):
> Maybe it's just me but I can't really see a good reason to use the Konsole
> _and_ gnu screen....
In a word: networks.
I'm sending this mail from a remote SSH session into my home SMTP server
from where I am physically, some 100 km away. My MUA session stays
running _on_ the SMTP host, 24x7, running under GNU screen. Ditto
numerous other tasks that need to stay loaded for ongoing operations.
Wherever I go, I just ssh in, do "screen -r -d", and I'm instantly
reconnected to whatever work was in process last time I detached and hit
the road.
If I didn't have a screen session running, my MUA session would
terminate whenever SSH dropped for any reason, or whenever I logged out.
Not good.
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