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

[Sunny Dubey]

On Sunday 27 May 2007 11:00:28 am Sunny Dubey wrote:
> 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.

I'm mildly amused that people on this list assume I know not of screen. I need 
to resume posting on this list, heh

Screen doesn't work for a few reasons:  First it doesn't have a sidebar that 
lets me see what I've got open. I have to manually do C-n " which kinda 
sucks.

Secondly with screens all new windows are run under the parent screen process 
which sucks because I've had screen go wonky on me, and the last thing I need 
is a bunch of processes I can no longer reach.  What I was hoping to do was 
something like:  (Fixed with font needed)

zsh$ ps auxfw
text-wm
 \_ SCREEN -S links links
    \_ links
 \_ SCREEN -S top top
    \_ top

This way if text-wm crashed, the screens probably won't die and my apps will 
still be there ....

While I'm dreamin' of this app it would be great if you could text-mouse 
around with it like you do with links ...

-- 
Sunny Dubey

  mail:  sunny at audiowiki.org
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