Re: persistent xterm sessions

["Tom Metro-12" <user=71@nabble.blu.org>]

 Bill Ricker wrote: 
> Screen can do this, provided you run it on a real host, not on the 
> laptop/X-server. 

Thanks for the suggestion, but the sessions I want to persist are local 
shells. 

Screen could still be used to pull this off, short of a local reboot, 
but then there's still the issue of connecting up the various screen 
sessions with the various xterms. (I want the different sessions 
reflected in the GUI in some fashion - either through independent xterm 
windows or tabs.) 

You can name screen sessions (sockets/pipes), so again, given enough 
scripting effort, this could be made to work. Whether it is worth the 
effort, given it wouldn't persist across a reboot, is another matter. 


On a side note, I've noticed when I use screen inside an xterm on 
Ubuntu, screen breaks xterm's scrollback buffer. Doing things like 
viewing a man page causes screen to "eat" the output of man such that it 
disappears from the scrollback history. It appears to be treating man 
like a curses app. 


> On certain systems, my .profile runs 'screen -r' so 
> all I need to is launch a Xterm with ssh to there... 

Yeah, for remote hosts, especially servers that rarely are rebooted, 
this works great, and I do likewise. 

  -Tom 

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