On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:25:43AM EDT, Trond Arne Sørby wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > >Only feature that I'm missing is vertical screen splits and resizing > >because this would make gnu/screen the perfect text-mode tiling window > >manager. > > I haven't tried it yet, but > http://people.nas.nasa.gov/~kolano/projects/screenwm.html looks > promising :-)
Thanks much for the pointer...! There's a thread regarding this screen wrapper on the screen-user list. I think I'll first apply the vertical split patch and see how this works out for me. Various users appear to have implemented it and it seems to work rather well if you don't do any resizing of the underlying terminal -- which I never do .. with only 1400x1050 pixels, I absolutely need full-screen. As to screenwm .. I read the "doc" about twenty times and I'm not sure what it actually _does_ .. so my guess if that you need to install it and play with it a bit .. It _sounds_ like it provides "views" of your multiplexed terminal environment and makes it a lot more straightforward to ssh to remote hosts and have nested levels of screen .. but I'm not sure. What I hope is that it mimics vim's behavior where you can have just about any number of active buffers -- in essence vim "subsessions" and switch to a memorized view that presents a collection of them in split-screen mode. Since screenwm's author uses vi-like movement keys -- dixit .. to navigate the sub-windows, it makes sense to be somewhat hopeful that his inspiration regarding the management of sessions was also based on the way it's implemented in vim. We'll see .. In any event thanks a lot for this info. Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
