mika’s advent calendar – day 14: gnu screen / tscreen
Seriously, if you don’t know GNU screen yet: where are you living? 8-)
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. If you want to leave (not exit) your current shell session(s) and re-attach them later again: GNU screen is the answer. If you don’t use it yet you’re missing something, really.
This is what GNU screen usually looks like on a grml system:
