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Re: persistent xterm sessions



 Tom Metro wrote: 
> Anyone know of a tool like 'screen' or an xterm equivalent that has the 
> ability to persistently save sessions? If you need to restart X or 
> reboot, most apps these days can preserve their sessions (like Firefox, 
> or an editor saving buffers), but you're stuck starting over from 
> scratch with your xterm sessions. 
> 
> When I start up X, I'd like to be able to resume work in a bunch of 
> xterm sessions, each preserving a title, current working directory, 
> command history, and scrollback buffer. Ideally it'd be nice to be able 
> to "reattach" to running programs in those xterms, much as you can 
> reattach to a screen (providing you haven't rebooted the machine). 


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