Re: making ssh connections persistent

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Eric De Mund wrote:

> This email was composed on my ISP which I am ssh'ed in to from a screen
> session on my home system. Which, in turn, I've ssh'ed in to from work.
> If my work->home connection dies, I simply reconnect to home via ssh,
> then resume my screen session. When I resume the screen session, voila,
> my open emacs program up at my ISP, for example, is presented to me.
> 
> screen(1) is old, but it's a killer app.
> 

Does screen work well with graphical applications? I know it is a very good
app for text based applications such as vim. But what if I use gvim/texmacs
for most of the editing?

thanks
raju
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