[nylug-talk] Text based "window manager" ??

[Mike Allred]

On 5/27/07, Sunny Dubey <sunny at opencurve.org> wrote:
>
> hey guys
>
> I was wondering if you guys knew of a text based window
> manager.  Something
> that lets me tab through windows and works entirely without X.
>
> Something like this:  (You need fixed width font)
>
> +-------+------------+
> | links |            |
> +-------+            |
> |  top  |            |
> +-------+            |
> | shell |            |
> +-------+            |
> |       |            |
> |       |            |
> |       |            |
> |       |            |
> |       | bash$      |
> +-------+------------+
>
> I hope you guys get the idea,  Thanks!
>
> --
> Sunny Dubey
>
>   mail:  sunny at audiowiki.org
>   tele:  212.333.3542
>
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Gnu screen is the one I use.  You can split horizontally, tab between
"windows" and set the name of the window to the proc running in it
automatically.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen