[TUHS] Early GUI on Linux
Will Senn
will.senn at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 02:39:04 AEST 2023
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 at vuxu.org> wrote:
>
> Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> writes:
>
>>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 04:50:34PM +0100, Leah Neukirchen wrote:
>>> Warner Losh <imp at 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.
>
> --
> Leah Neukirchen <leah at vuxu.org> https://leahneukirchen.org
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