David C. Rankin wrote:
Chee How Chua wrote:
On Jan 18, 2008 5:17 PM, Marcin Floryan <marcin.floryan@gmail.com> wrote:
With screen you can easily attach and detach from the session and continue it being connected remotely so it is easy to start some task in the terminal window on my machine and the continue when I am away. Screen can give you the same "tabs" though presented as a list (Ctrl+A + ") and you can name them too. Switching is easy using (Ctrl+A + n) so you can go directly from window 2 to window 5 :-)
-- Marcin Floryan http://marcin.floryan.pl/
Another useful function of screen is it can do copy and paste. I know it isn't exceptionally useful in a GUI environment, but if you only work in runlevel 3, the copy-and-paste capability can be quite handy.
-- How
Thank you all for leading me to screen! It is an amazingly elegant way to manage multiple terminal sessions in a text console or in konsole in X. The cut and paste, an ability to turn logging on and off is great. No need to have kedit open to capture snippets to, just turn logging on and it is done automatically, switch it on or off with a keystroke. But for the 'su question' that started this thread, I would have never known screen existed.
5 years from now, MS will be calling it "obsolete technology". 10 years from now, MS will release their own, pathetically broken, half-***ed implementation. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org