On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:10:27 -0400, "Kamaraju S Kusumanchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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?
Screen is a truly great program but this has nothing to do with running graphical apps using X-forwarding over ssh (which I believe is what you are doing). Here is more information on screen: http://delicious.com/andmalc/screen Use the ServerAliveInterval=30 setting in ~/.ssh/config as suggested earlier to keep your ssh sessions alive. ------------------- Andrew Malcolmson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
