Two text consoles on the same physical one.

stf92 · 06-27-2011, 08:44 PM

How large would a program have to be to open two text consoles on the same physycal console? And what would the general outline be? Thanks.

Lexus45 · 06-28-2011, 02:14 AM

What about "splitvt" package?
Is it what you wish to have?

Maybe I misunderstood you...

stf92 · 06-28-2011, 02:33 AM

You did not. That's wonderful news! Thanks.

Lexus45 · 06-28-2011, 02:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stf92

You did not. That's wonderful news! Thanks.

Even more, it's available from the official Slackware repo. ;-)
ps: you're welcome.

grail · 06-28-2011, 02:42 AM

If not concerned about displaying the output at the same time, ie like splitvt above, you could also look at screen.

stf92 · 06-28-2011, 03:13 AM

I heard about screen. I forgot: I immediately used locate and there it was /usr/bin/splitvt.

I'll use it thus: in one window I'll read advancedbashscripting.txt and, on the other, I'll do the examples. I feel more comfortable with the text mode dot matrix chars than with the terminals in the GUI. Thanks.

dugan · 06-28-2011, 08:41 AM

There's also tmux.

stf92 · 06-28-2011, 01:44 PM

And what does it do? Because I lack it.

dugan · 06-28-2011, 01:51 PM

It does what splitvt and screen do. Only, it's newer.

stf92 · 06-28-2011, 05:40 PM

Thank you so much.