If you want to use desktop real estate more efficiently or if you ever find yourself without the X Window System yet needing more than one terminal, the popular GNU screen utility may be the perfect ...

Terminal multiplexers allow you to run multiple commands in different virtual terminals within one terminal. Multiplexers like tmux let you run commands over remote connections without losing progress ...

I <3 gnu screen and I use it all the time.<BR><BR>I just decided to give finch (a cli version of pidgin) a shot, and it looks pretty nifty. It's actually drawing windows in text mode on the screen ...