On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:05:17AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: > Seriously, though, I use X to manage my rxvt sessions and to take care > of the occasional graphical app I need to run. <laugh> Emacs is my > main application, and I usually run it in an rxvt so that I can keep > it in screen[1].
For which use I have found Xfce to be PERFECT! The small "taskbar" doesn't occupy that much space, and has icons for my most run programs (mozilla, gvim, and wterms with customized titles for various SSH stuff). For the task list, I've mapped my Windows keys to the WindowList function which comes up with a list of windows which I can move to the foreground by either clicking the entry using my mouse, or if I'd rather keep my fingers on the keyboard, using the associated number or letter. > [1] screen is a very handy program that multiplexes terminals. We do > all sorts of weird things with it. <g> I should write something about > screen soon... Among other "wierd" things, I like having mutt on the main server running in a screen. I noticed that unlike Pine, mutt (at least along with vi) doesn't seem to have an auto-recovery feature for email that gets lost when for some reason the session terminates (most of the time this is because I got disconnected). With screen, mutt is always running, and I can resume the session as I left it from anywhere. Provided of course that the server hadn't died since I last left things. Screen also allows multiple instances of a session to be open, in what the manual page calls multi-display mode, so you can say, work on your mail from another workstation just to see if anything's new without killing the session in your main terminal, or something like that. I mustn't forget to mention of course that screen allows sessions to be given nice names, that allow not just for easy recall of active sessions (via the nice `screen -list`), but for convenient attachment/reattachment, as well (via `screen -R <name>`). Unnamed screens are given names based on the hostname and the controlling terminal. I don't know if I've already implied it, but screen sessions may be detached from, using the Ctrl-A Ctrl-D sequence. They continue running in the background, and may be reattached to later on. And a whole lot more, of course. Sacha didn't say "all sorts" for nothing. I've found the screen(1) manual page to be a really handy reference for nice things that can be done with this really handy utility. :) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : <http://jijo.free.net.ph/> Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
