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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:29:26 +0200
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> Allowing some form of su (as was suggested elsewhere) is very useful,
> but isn't really an answer to my problem. Also the
> drawterm-on-top-of-a screensaver idea (while a nice bit of lateral
> thinking!) also wouldn't be very satisfactory, because the reverse
> problem then occurs: we lose the context in the drawterm when going
> back to the underneath "original" session (and how would it nest
> further?). 

not a plan 9 way, but could using vnc make a difference here?
(or something similar)
I tend to have a long-running 'persistent' vnc session on a server
at work, and pick up (connect to) the session whereever I am.

Axel.