Timeline for Why does UNIX/Linux provide multiple terminals?
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| May 30, 2017 at 1:15 | history | edited | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 3.0 | minor clarity tweaks |
| Apr 10, 2017 at 8:09 | comment | added | moooeeeep | Side note: there are some alternatives available to using pure screen superuser.com/q/423310 | |
| Apr 9, 2017 at 5:42 | comment | added | stanri | Adding on to what @ivanivan said, other people can see your screen session and multiple people can view it at the same time. It's like console desktop sharing. | |
| Apr 8, 2017 at 20:57 | history | edited | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added rxvt example; added multiple screen(1) terminal config article link; clarity tweaks |
| Apr 8, 2017 at 19:02 | history | edited | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 150 characters in body |
| Apr 8, 2017 at 19:01 | comment | added | ivanivan | The better bit about screen - other than having multiple terminals on a dumb console terminal - is that you can disconnect, log out, log back in, and reconnect to sessions, and the process(es) or whatever you were doing in the screen terms keep going. | |
| Apr 8, 2017 at 18:58 | history | answered | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 3.0 |