Hi Tim/Ralph & all, On 2 December 2011 14:11, Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm often discovering nifty utilities that I'm embarrassed not to have > > known about years ago. This week it's GNU screen: > I too felt a bit silly about not having come across it before I did - and at first I thought "what's the point?" - nowadays it (and emacs) are the first things I install onto a bare new remote machine. I find it particularly handy for watching/working on a number of different cloud servers - they are running Ubuntu so I put the byobu variant on them, with the same setup and set of default 'windows' on each (a shell, a htop, a mutt, an emacs...) and style each one to have a different background colour on the botom status line ;-) > > Yes, very handy. Dates back to the 80s. :) There's also byobu which > is an "enhancement" to screen and can display configurable data. > Probably more useful if you're logging into machines where you want to > observe the performance. > > https://launchpad.net/byobu > Thanks for the link Ralph; I was going to mention the derivation of the word but they beat me to it ;-) Also I was going to moan that byobu seemed only to be available for Ubuntu but I see that there is a Fedora RPM too which is nice! Hope to see some of y'all Tuesday. -- best regards, Victor Churchill, Bournemouth -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
