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RE: screen


On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:

> 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?

detaching from the session. At least for remote logins this is very useful.
It is quite convenient to jump directly to pine, mutt or whatever you have
running in one screen session instead of cycling through many xterms and
trying to find the right one.

bye
	ago
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