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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by silentbicycle on Monday September 28, 2009 @02:56PM (#848976)
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 still an unofficial patch.

Either way, if you use Unix, learn to use screen or tmux. They're tremendouslyuseful. (Also: Noisy wireless connections are the new flaky dialup, when it comes to resuming shell sessions.)

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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by pyre on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:02PM (#848986)
No offense, but how does it's BSD-licensed codebase mean that it 'gets more features'?
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by silentbicycle on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:04PM (#848990)
I rephrased my comment - I think it's the cleaner codebase that makes the big difference. Its BSD license has some perks, though - for one thing, it's part of the OpenBSD base system now, which means security auditing and excellent maintainers. That will probably also lead to more features in the long run.

OpenBSD man page: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tmux

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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by duskwuff on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @01:29AM (#849864)
I was able to make tmux hang in a matter of a few minutes of playing with it (and not even trying hard). It's definitely got promise, but it also still has a way to go.
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by silentbicycle on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @08:05AM (#850182)
Can you reproduce it, or describe what you did? In a couple months of using it constantly on three systems, I've never had a single problem with it.
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by duskwuff on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @11:41PM (#854279)
Started tmux, split the window a few times, ^B <space> a few times, and it hung. I've submitted a sample to the developer. (It's getting stuck somewhere around screen_write_copy.)
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by JulianMorrison on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @10:00AM (#850374)
How does that compare to dvtm?

http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/

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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by silentbicycle on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @10:57AM (#850489)
Interesting. I haven't heard of that before, I'll look into it. I doubt a comparison based on a first impression would be useful, though.
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by soundphed on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:04PM (#848988)
Thanks, I will look at that, looks rad! I just thought the article covered some really key points about multiplexing terminals in general...
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by blasdel on Monday September 28, 2009 @06:33PM (#849380)
tmux is not rad, just clean -- see http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/neercs for a truly radical screen replacement:

  Grab a process that you forgot to start inside neercs
  Great screensaver
  Real time thumbnails of your shells
  Special effects when closing a window
  Various window layouts...
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by apotheon on Monday September 28, 2009 @09:48PM (#849633)
I rather like the fact it uses the WTFPL, too. It's not really a replacement for something like tmux, though, from what I've seen.
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by mahmud on Monday September 28, 2009 @07:27PM (#849446)
How does any of this work when through putty or when connecting to X-less unices from the myriad of non-Unix boxes out there?
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by cma on Monday September 28, 2009 @10:37PM (#849692)
At least click the link. It is all done in ascii art.
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by jacquesm on Monday September 28, 2009 @05:37PM (#849285)
What does 'looks rad' mean ?
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by pyre on Monday September 28, 2009 @05:45PM (#849305)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rad

Basically short for 'radical' and a replacement for 'awesome' or 'cool.'

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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by soundphed on Monday September 28, 2009 @05:45PM (#849303)
pardon me, I meant to say that it (tmux) looks neat and useful!
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by jacquesm on Monday September 28, 2009 @05:59PM (#849327)
Ah :)

Sorry, I felt a little old there for a second.

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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by apotheon on Monday September 28, 2009 @09:49PM (#849635)
"Rad" hasn't really been in widespread use since the '80s.
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by Hackbrot on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @07:31AM (#905221)
Nice piece of software.
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