On 7/31/23 11:28 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I trust that you know alternatives. Will you describe one?
As for how I'm using X11,
I'm currently typing this reply in Thunderbird (X11 client application)
running on a different Linux system than the one that I'm using as the
(X11 display) server.
I have Firefox and Lotus Notes do similar.
Though I suspect that these aren't the type of applications that would
be commonly executed in USS / OMVS.
As for the environments,
I routinely configure an interactive shell the way that I want it and
then spawn many different things from it, be it different window, or
foreground / background / suspended processes, or even things like
terminal multiplexers that allow me to completely {dis,re}connect from
things that are running.
Another thing I find useful is to pipe stdout from a command into
"less" running in a fresh xterm window, leaving my parent session
available for interactive commands. I have a script for this.
That is an interesting use case. I like it.
Though I suspect that while the new XTerm is open, the first XTerm is
busy running the command generating the output and less.
But *nix makes this easy to background things to release the terminal
for interactive use while the new terminal is showing data.
Grant. . . .
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