[Cialug] Window manager for servers

[David Champion]

Looks interesting, I may have to see about using the "tabs" function 
they've added. You can get that info by hitting

ctrl-a "

... to show all of the screens inside your session.

I pretty much always use screen when I'm going to do anything more 
complicated than a few 1-liners in an ssh session. I usually have a 
bunch of things like an IM, email client etc. running in screen. Also 
handy if you were going to download a completely legal file via 
bittorrent (that doesn't involve singing and dancing high-school 
students) using the bt curses client. ;)

I've also set up init scripts on some servers to run things in a screen 
session, so I can connect to them later - i.e. a folding at home session, 
or running a dedicated game server you need to get on the console 
sometimes to run commands.

It does seem like black magic, until you get the hang of it.. once you 
get used to using screen all of the time, you feel naked being at a 
console without it.

-dc

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> Recently I started an internal discussion at work about SSH
> connections that can survive when your laptop is suspended and
> resumed, possibly on a new network. Of course the discussion drifted
> towards `screen` a console based window manager that has this
> capability.
>
> I've often found screen to be limited and interfered with the way I
> worked, but apparently it is very flexible. Recently work has been
> done to create a set of installable (and for the next Ubuntu Server
> version, built in) screen configuration profiles. Some quite
> sophisticated, providing a console based window manager.
>
> See some details at
> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2008/12/ubuntu-server-includes-window-manager.html
>
> A few things that interest me about this are that it helps you keep
> track of what server you're on, it even shows an icon for the distro
> (debian, ubuntu and fedora supported) and version number, a list of
> colored tabs at the bottom for open sessions and even some system
> information.
>
> I do a lot of work using SSH and I know many of you do too so thought
> you might find this interesting and useful. Looks like a work in
> progress.
>
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