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RE: screen
- From: elijah wright <elw at stderr dot org>
- To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:28:55 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: RE: screen
- References: <20050421021727.404EC6E0274@illuminati.stderr.org>
Could somebody *please* explain to me why screen is in any way useful on
a system with even a semblance of a window manager? I can see the point
of screen on a stripped-down text-only system, but when you can open up
any number of rxvt+bash's and ALT-TAB between them...
...what am I missing? And I'm not picking on you Andy, I keep hearing
how wonderful this screen progam is, and I have yet to meet anybody who
can tell me why.
sometimes the machine you need lots of terminals on is remote, rather than
local. in that case, screen is extremely useful. it also saves you from
having to manage windows, which is often counterproductive and keeps you
from doing 'real' work.
--elijah