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

[Henning Follmann]

On May 27, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Sunny Dubey 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!
>

The one coming closest to that is twin.

But it seriously sucks. screen is still 10 times better, even with  
the limitation you mentioned.

Henning

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