[kde-linux] Monitoring external sessions?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 14:35, David Baron wrote:
> > > Konsole has become a first class app. I was wondering if there was
> > > anyway to enter/attach/monitor an external session, i.e. a "tty" login
> > > on vt1?
> >
> > Hmm.
> > You could start a GNU screen session on vt1 and attach to this with
> > screen from Konsole.
>
> checking the --help, must start a "detached" mode session, then "attach" it
> to a screen running in konsole. OK, I can try that.
>
> The whole point is that konsole makes (or should make) screen unnecessary.
> Much easier with a GUI than all those keys and command line options. Screen
> is nifty in a console logon where there is nothing else :-)

True, but I don't know if it is possible at all to open a terminal device 
twice, i.e. once by the virtual terminal handler and once by Konsole.

It might more likely work to extend Konsole to attach to a screen session.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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