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Farhan Ahmed wrote: |
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> Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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>> Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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>> >xterm and screen. Who needs tabs when you have screen? |
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>> Me. What have tabs and screen to do with each other? It makes |
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>> a lot of sense to use both. The use of one doesn't contradict |
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>> the use of the other. In no way whatsoever. |
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> Can you tell me, why you would want to use both tab and screen? |
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To seperate different screen sessions. I've often got |
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multiple screen sessions running on multiple servers. |
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And often I don't want to mix that. |
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Different example: On tab 1, I'm logged on to screen |
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on server 1 and show session 1. On tab 2, I'm logged |
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on to the same session and show session 2. Now it's |
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very easy to switch back and forth between those sessions - |
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even easier than ^A^A. |
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A different example, which has nothing to do with tabs, |
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but with running multiple terminals with one or multiple |
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screens: To *see* two sessions at once. |
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Screen also becomes somewhat "harder" to use, when you've |
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got more than 10 sessions in a screen, as you then cannot *as* |
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easily switch - or is there a way to easily switch to session |
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17? For 0 to 9, it's just ^A0 to ^A9 (or whatever the escape |
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character is set to). Granted - with gnome-terminal, it also |
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becomes "clumsy" to switch to sessions > 10. |
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And no, even if it might be possible to change the size of the |
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screen so that two (or more) sessions can be shown |
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> They |
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> both serve the same purpose. |
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No, they don't. How does screen serve the purpose of seperating |
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sessions? Easy (contrived) example: On Console 1 I'm logged on |
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to server 1 and have my screen with some sessions. And on Console |
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2, I'm logged on to workstation 2 with some sessions. How do |
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you do that with just one screen? |
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> Screen is much better to handle than the |
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> tabs. |
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No, it isn't. But it's also not worse. It just doesn't |
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have anything to do with each other, as they serve different |
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purposes. And because of that, the best answer is: They |
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are different. Different things for different purposes are |
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different to handle. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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