Re: screen multidisplay with terminals resized
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 05:09:03PM -0700, green wrote:
> I have been using screen (the terminal multiplexor) for a long time. It is one
> of those really useful utilities that just sticks.
>
> Also, I recently started using the awesome wm which is worth checking out if
> you like to increase your productivity elegantly (yeah, elegantly).
>
> So in the past I have often had multiple terminals running on multiple
> workspaces (using the openbox wm) all connected to a single screen session.
> This worked fine.
>
> But now with awesome, I always have exactly 2 terminals (ROXTerm) running
> screen, no more or less. I don't want fewer and don't need more because I can
> tell awesome to show those terminals on multiple workspaces. It works very
> well, or would if screen wasn't being goofy.
I find awesome here very goofy. My current WM (IceWM) makes it very
simple to move terminals between windows. And yet I don't use it much.
I tried awesome a number of times to see what this buzz is all about. It
took me a while to get a usable configuration (unlike IceWM). And then I
ran into the problem of constantly resized xterms.
After looking up a bit, I realised that the handling of awesome was
really poor. Because they assume you use konsole or gnome-terminal where
there is a single terminal window with multiple windows. Those are not
really under the control of the WM. And their poor users are already
used to them being constantly resized and generally in wierd sizes.
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