Re: Access to multiple terminal windows?
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 20:13 +0100, m@de-minimis.co.uk wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> When operating in terminal only mode (no X11, no graphical user interface)
> is there a way of having several active terminal windows?
>
> I seem to remember that something like F4 is meant to permit cycling
> through terminal windows but that doesn't seem to work. Unless perhaps I
> have to explicitly create a new terminal window and F4 is cycling me
> through all of one terminal windows. I'm on tty1 and for the time being
> seem to be stuck there!
Sounds like you're using an honest-to-$DEITY VTx20 terminal (or
PC emulation thereof). It's been a loooong time since I've done
that.
IIRC, F4 drops the VT into "command" mode, so that *if* your VT
is plugged into a terminal server, then you could have 4 sessions,
and round-robin between them. But, you probably aren't connected
via a terminal server...
screen(1) is probably what you want.
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