[TUHS] Re: Early GUI on Linux

[Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>]

Same here. The virtual terminals worked for me (and still do) until I start doing ssh, then screen and tmux are lifesavers. 

Will

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> On Feb 26, 2023, at 10:23 AM, Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> wrote:
> 
> Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> writes:
> 
>>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 04:50:34PM +0100, Leah Neukirchen wrote:
>>> Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> - was there any discussion of alternatives to X?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Discussions yes. But not much more than talk.
>>>> 
>>>> There were vgalib apps that ran graphics on the console, but I never used
>>>> them.
>>> 
>>> Back then I didn't have enough disk space to install X11 and TeX at
>>> the same time, so I mostly worked on the 80x25 console
>> 
>> screen(1) was my go to back in the days of limited resources.  Especially
>> screen -r so you could detach, come back the next day and have all your
>> setup right there.
>> 
>> Wasn't that fancy but oh so useful.  I'm with Ted in that we just wanted
>> a bunch of terminal windows.
> 
> Curiously, I learned about screen only way later, when I used remote
> systems.  But I made getty spawn on 12 ttys, so that worked as well to
> multitask.
> 
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