> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > >Could somebody *please* explain to me why screen is in any > way useful on a > >system with even a semblance of a window manager?
1. It is useful when the underlying operating system (say, Linux) is more stable than the client operating system (in this case, one of the Windows variants). Using screen, you can connect to multiple servers, have long-lived sessions (weeks), without concern that your session will be terminated when your Windows client computer freezes or needs to be rebooted because of an upgrade. This is another way of saying what Lapo Luchini said, I think. 2. It allows you to create a complex session with multiple screens attached to muliple servers at your favorite computer, disconnect your session from that computer, get up and walk across the office, and reconnect to your session at someone else's computer. 3. If you have an ssh server running somewhere in your network that allows external connections then you can repeat step 2 from anywhere in the world that has internet access. 4. Even if you forget to disconnect (say, when you leave work or when you leave home and return to work), you can list your screen sessions after connecting remotely or locally, and disconnect that session from the other location and connect to it from your new location. 5. Although I haven't had occasion to use it, screen has the ability to allow collaborative work, i.e., multiple people at different locations in an office or around the world could connect to a single screen. ----
