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Use tabbed terminal windows with iTerm
Are people getting too good to use screen now? 8-) Granted there aren't pretty tabs, but it has plenty of other features that more than make up for it. Easily label screens, flip between screens, created new screens from the keyboard. Fire up screen on my computer at work and get all of the screens set up (each database and server). If I need to work on stuff when I get home, just SSH into my box at work and detach the screen from my office box, reattach the screen to my home box, and presto - I have all of my screens again without having to go through and log into each database and server again.
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... I'm probably an idiot for saying this, but I find 'screen' way too complicated to use for anything beyond the simplest level -- I use it when I want to start a remote download and then disconnect, but that's it. Anything beyond that, and I find myself quickly lost in a mess of screen changes -- I can't remember what I've started, what I detached, what's not started, etc. I know I can list them, but that's a pain in the but, and cycling through them to get to the one I want is a royal pain. That's why I don't use screen instead...
screen window list
To help keep track of screen sessions, you can use the status line. Put the following in your .screenrc:
(all characters are literal, ie. ^E is a carat (^) and an E, not control-E) and it will set the titlebar to list all windows by number and title. the vt100 line is snagged from the screen xterm hints, and tells screen to use the titlebar as the status line. The second line sets up the status to show the list of windows. The current screen-window will have a * by its number. Its still not tabs, but it is easier than trying to remember which window is which. Now, if anyone knows how to dynamically change the title of a screen window to be the currently running program, please let me know!
screen window list
I can't get this to work...
screen window list
The code posted somehow stripped the backslash characters and the chars following it.
Here's what I have in my screenrc that works:
This looks OK in preview... hopefully it makes it to post OK.
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Agreed. The speed of iTerm is usually not objectionable (except for a quirk in a recent version, but they fixed it quickly). The interface is much more intuitive than screens' and the status display is better even than konsole's (which was probably the app I missed most when switching from Linux to MacOS X).
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Use tabbed terminal windows with iTerm
I really like screen... I'm able to use it in any terminal program I happen to be running (or trying out). And the ability to ssh to an external server (so I can get my (banned) external email), and detach my screen session before logging out so I can re-attach when I re-login, is invaluable. |
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