If you want to use desktop real estate more efficiently or if you ever find yourself without the X Window System yet needing more than one terminal, the popular GNU screen utility may be the perfect ...

I <3 gnu screen and I use it all the time.<BR><BR>I just decided to give finch (a cli version of pidgin) a shot, and it looks pretty nifty. It's actually drawing windows in text mode on the screen ...

I like screen. It generally makes things easier. But, when I eventually wind up rebooting my system for one reason or another, it forgets where it was. Some Googling has indicated that I'm not alone ...