Screen is your friend (was Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality)

Andrew Wendt awendt at putergeek.com
Sat Jul 7 12:17:26 EST 2001


On July 7, 2001 04:47, Telsa Gwynne wrote:

> screen has to be one of the most underrated apps there is. So many
> people don't know about it. I prefer it over kterm's tabbed terminal
> windows and powershell (gnome-terminal-based similar idea) because
> it is all keyboard-driven and you don't need to lift your hands to
> the mouse to switch.

Shift+leftarrow and shift+rightarrow work to switch between sessions in KDE's 
terminal.

Before I learned that, I would never use the tabbed sessions and always open 
a new terminal window.

TTFN
Andy




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