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

[Mike Allred]

On 5/27/07, Sunny Dubey <sunny at opencurve.org> wrote:
>
> 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.



While not a sidebar, the "caption" line for a screen can show the names of
open windows (which you then have to navigate via C-n).

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



As mentioned by someone else, I installed and tried twin which can fork gnu
screens and text-mouses.  Quite interesting!

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
> tele: 212.333.3542
>
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