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Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by pyre » Sat, Oct 24, 2009, 1:25 AM UTC

chwahoo wrote: post #81

Screen is great. I wish there were an analogous tool that let me group several running X apps into a long-running session that I could connect to/disconnect from locations. Any idea if this is possible today?

I realize that this is really old, but I came back searching for something in the comments, and I now have something to add to this. I came across something (that is no longer maintained) called xmove which was describe as 'screen for X11'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmove

Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by Hackbrot » Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 11:31 AM UTC

silentbicycle wrote: post #20

You might want to consider tmux ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ ) as an alternative. Its cleaner (and, incidentally, BSD-licensed) codebase means that it's getting features that have been gathering dust on screen's to-do list for ages. Most notably, its dwm/XMonad-style layouts ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/tmux6.png ) are really nice. AFAICT, screen doesn't even officially have vertically split windows yet, it's stil…

Nice piece of software.

Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by mcantor » Tue, Nov 10, 2009, 8:53 PM UTC

pyre wrote: post #65

mcantor wrote: post #44

I often use idiosyncratic screen setups with very specifically-purposed windows. I support this behavior with a special config file that launches screen with certain windows pre-loaded for certain uses: source /home/mcantor/.screenrc chdir $SANDBOX/src screen 0:svn screen 1:lib screen 2:nosetests stuff "activate_environment\015" screen 3:ipython stuff "activate_environment\015ipython\015" screen 4: select 0 I use stu…

I really wish there was a way to use the sessionname in the hard status line formatting.

You're probably never going to read back this far in time, but, it's coming in the next version.