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? > I think it's main usefulness it's not the multi-screen, but rather the possibility to run "long" commands from a remote terminal without the fear that a disconnection of the terminal would also terminate the started jobs, while retaining the capaicity to see their output (else a single ^Z and "disown" would be enough...).
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