On 3/14/06, jeff covey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you don't say what it is you actually want to do, but if i understand you > correctly, you mean that you have trouble switching between the different > applications running in your xterms. if so, screen probably is the answer > for you. >
i've actually mentioned in my post that screen is not the answer for me; but then again, after thinking about what u say, i think that it might help. I must say, though, that sometimes due to the fact that i need to work on so many things at once/want to track so many things, i end up having many "screen" sessions instead. eg. one "screen" (*note i use "screen" here as in what u see when u do a 'screen -ls' - each line being a separate "screen") for my various config file editting sessions, another screen for my "ping output" sessions, another for what i do in /tmp, etc. etc.. > use "screen -ls" to get the pid of the screen session you're using in your > main xterm, then "screen -x [pid]" in another xterm to attach to that > session without detaching it from the main xterm. you can then leave the > watcher xterm on whatever screen you want to watch and go on using the main > xterm. when you want to interact with something you see in the watcher > xterm, you don't need to switch xterms, just use screen to switch to that > screen. > > hope that's clear; it's simpler than it sounds... :) > I think it would have been clearer if u had distinguished ur various definitions of "screen" here - u refer to "screen" as in "screen session" (or the lines u see in 'screen -ls'), and then u refer to "screen" as in a shell within a "screen session" as well (when u see listed at the bottom when u do a 'C-a w'). I got u though - and i really appreciate whatu tried to communicate here. It has definitely helped me. -jf _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
