The powerful command-line 'screen' utility (see this hint for help installing screen) can handle multiple "windows" within the same screen session. It's quite like tabbed browsing in Mozilla or the way kterm works in KDE.
To create a new window you press "Ctrl-A c". To cycle forward through the list of windows use "Ctrl-A n"; backward is "Ctrl-A p", and "Ctrl-D" to terminate the screen. Assuming you have 'screen' installed, here's a quick example:
Yes, this is documented in screen's man pages. But it's one huge man page and I thought maybe you'd be more inclined to read it if you knew great stuff like this are hiding there.
To create a new window you press "Ctrl-A c". To cycle forward through the list of windows use "Ctrl-A n"; backward is "Ctrl-A p", and "Ctrl-D" to terminate the screen. Assuming you have 'screen' installed, here's a quick example:
% screen topOr something along those lines. You don't need tabbed terminal apps after all. =)
[Ctrl-A c]
% screen man tcsh
[Ctrl-A c]
% man screen
[Ctrl-A n] [Ctrl-A p] [Ctrl-A n] etc
[Ctrl-A n] until 'top' is onscreen
q [Ctrl-D]
[Ctrl-D] etc...
Yes, this is documented in screen's man pages. But it's one huge man page and I thought maybe you'd be more inclined to read it if you knew great stuff like this are hiding there.
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