Way back, I wrote a quick blurb on Window Managers for running under X.

Well, a while back I switched to Ubuntu for my OS of choice. As you may know, the fine folks at Ubuntu switched to default window manager to something called Unity, which caused a stir. I tried it for a while, but decided that it was too heavy, and too mouse-centric.

So, what to do? Well, I went back to my old standby wmfs, Window Manager From Scratch. This is a modern WM with systray support, full Ximirama and Xrandr support, tiles, and is mainly driven from the keyboard. Life is good.

Screen - terminal multiplexer

I usually have one screen running at all time, and in that screen session, I ssh to various hosts that I am working, and have screen running on those hosts.

Additional Links

• gnu screen - Google Search
• GNU Screen - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
• GNU Screen - Summary [Savannah]
• GNU Screen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• GNU Screen - Jonathan McPherson
• Remote terminal session management using screen How to use screen to detach from and share terminal sessions
• screen - The Terminal Multiplexer Power Sessions with Screen

Window Manager for tty?

The package screen is something that has been around for a long time.

With screen, you can have many session running on on tty, and you can switch to another session with out touching a mouse. With the proper configuration, you can get notified if there is some change (like if you have a IM client up) or if there is no output (say, if you are watching a compile session).