On 2016-12-10, Kevin Monceaux <ke...@rawfeddogs.net> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 07:41:51PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I think he meant that from a "desktop productivity" standpoint, the >> two are the same: you have to close every single program you are using >> and then start over. > > I'm old fashioned. I use text based apps as much as possible. I'm using > mutt and vim to compose this e-mail, for example.
It's slrn and emacs for me. > They're running under screen, which is running in an rxvt-unicode > terminal under dwm. I could detach my screen session, exit > rxvt-unicode and bounce dwm without having to exit vim or mutt. I > also have music playing via moc in another screen session. Thanks > to screen I could bounce my window manager without missing a beat. > :-) Yep, there are long-running things that I run in screen so that I can restart X, or continue using them from a different location or whatever. But, that's pretty far removed from what most people (even Linux users) do with a "desktop". -- Grant
