[Terminal] open tab in existing window

Ambrose Li ambrose.li at gmail.com
Thu Nov 23 06:49:21 CET 2006


On 19/11/06, JoeHill <joehill at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:55:51 -0500
> Blake Smith got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
>
> > It would be nice if gaim-text could attatch to an already running gaim
> > process, that way you could access your AIM from anywhere quite easily
> > without really having to switch clients.
>
> Could you not do that with screen? Leave gaim-text running inside a screen
> session on your home box, ssh in, and reattach. Assumes you have access to SSH,
> but from what you say, it sounds like you do...
>
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding you though. That would be par for the course for
> me ;)

He means being able to use gaim-txt to attach to the already-running *GUI*
version of gaim. That way the GUI version can keep running, but he would have
the flexibility to access it when logging in remotely through ssh/screen.

Maybe a feature suggestion for gaim 3.0? :)

-- 
cheers,
-ambros



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