using screen as a window manager
 

how do i use screen as a window manager when you start on?

Do you mean this: screen - screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation? If so, then it isn't a Window Manager. It allows you to have multiple terminals open when you've physically only got one open. Useful is you need a number of terms open over a single ssh connection. Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

yes, but read this article http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/581/

Ok, I see... but you still can't run screen as a window manager. It doesn't do windows, it just does text. If you want screen to start immediately after you login (to a text console) then you should put it in your .profile or more likely your .bash_profile.

this is probably going to be very annoying to ask but, what would the code be to do that, isn't it something like
or something?, and where in the .bashrc profile would i put it, thank you

You should just add the command as you would type it on the command-line... for example, I have a sound played when I login to a text prompt because I addedto my .bash_profile. The difference between the two files is that the .bash_profile is run when you initially login whereas .bashrc is run every time a new term is opened. If you want screen to run on your console but not in every xterm window you open, then put it into .bash_profile as above.

The window manager used in that article is ratpoison.

Håkan

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thanks a lot! i'll go download it

maybe it doesn't belong here....but there is also a 'window manager' for the console...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/
check it out ^^