[SGVLUG] SSH client that can display all four screens at one time

[Leon Yeh]

Thank you Tom and Claude,

That is it! I remembered reading from some magazine. I thought it was 
system admin magazine, it turned out it was LinuxJournal. Thanks again, 
I was up until late at night try to remember.


Leon Yeh
New Avenue Systems Inc.
Office: (626)254-1757 x880
leon at newavenue.net

Tom Emerson wrote:
> On Thursday 18 August 2005 12:52 am, Claude Felizardo wrote:
> 
>>On 8/17/05, Leon Yeh <leon at newavenue.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>I have read somewhere but forgot to write down the name of application.
>>>It is a shell type application that can display by default all four
>>>sessions in one window. It starts with some thing "quad".
>>
>>LinuxJournal just had an article on this in July.    It's called
>>Quadconsole and was described in the Cooking with Linux column.  It
>>was written by Simon Perreault using KDE kparts.  Have a look at
>>either
>>http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22482 or
>>http://freshmeat.net/projects/quadkonsole
>>
>>You can even open up 16 sessions:
>>
>>quadconsole --rows 4 --columns 4
> 
> 
> actually, one of the screenshots on kde-apps showed 70 session [10 rows x 7 
> cols] but overall, it's still "cheating" -- you need "X" and KDE to do this, 
> so it really isn't a "console" or "shell type" application, at least, not in 
> the sense that you could run it over a serial line to a "dumb" terminal (or 
> even a "smart" one...)  As such, you can do what this does by running 
> multiple instances of xterm or similar, but as the author notes, the reasons 
> this is "better" are that
> 
>    -- you don't have to manually align the terminal windows
>    -- you can minimize ALL of them at once 
>    -- it only takes "one slot" in the taskbar
> 
> but for each of these reasons, there is a counter argument
> 
>    -- [manually align]: if you have screens that have large expanses of blank 
> space or "unneeded content", you can't overlap the window to hide the part 
> you don't care about
>    -- [minimize all]: unless, of course, you're interested in ONE particular 
> screen
>    -- [one slot]: kill one, and they all go bye-bye...
>