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Re: [LUG] The Command Line

 

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:12:19 +0100
Paul Sutton wrote:

> On 24/06/11 20:18, James Fidell wrote:
> > On 20/06/11 12:13, Tony Sumner wrote:
> > 
> >> I use the CLI a lot,
> > 
> > There's another way? :)
> > 
> > The most useful thing a GUI has done for me is to allow me to run
> > lots of CLI sessions at once.
> > 
> > James
> > 
> 
> Not that i use it much but screen gives you the same or similar
> functionality.  run more than one console and switch between them.
> 
> Paul

It's not as easy to have 2 screen sessions open simultaneously on the
same console as it is to have 2 graphical terminal sessions open on the
same X session.

Grant.

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