Re: installation

[Robin Lee Powell]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 10:27:23AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 08:59:12AM -0400, Brielle Tilson wrote:
> > Yes we have an IT guy that installs programs on the school
> > computer as us grad students don’t have root privileges. Do I need
> > to have screen installed on both the school computer and my home
> > computer? 
> > 
> > Yes I know that Linux is an operating system just like Windows. My
> > current setup is that I have Windows at home and am not looking to
> > change it.
> > 
> > What do you mean “screen does this only for command line not
> > graphical desktop”. I thought the idea of screen was that I can
> > see the screen of my computer at school. Isn’t screen a GUI?
> 
> I think we need to start at the beginning here.
> 
> The way you get a *text only* connection to a remote server (like
> your school's computer) to do stuff at the command line is called
> SSH.  There are many SSH clients for Windows.  Here's a video with a
> basic connection example:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPXnop3C6JQ , and here's an example
> of using the command line in practice (at this specific time in this
> video; the stuff before this is unlikely to help): 
> https://youtu.be/_3M7Y0iC7PE?t=302
> 
> screen (and tmux and several others; the general term is "terminal
> multiplexer") are for basically holding open your command line
> connection so that when you come back, you can get back to exactly
> the same state you were in before.  Here's an example of very basic
> use of screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuRZpGRDl40

To expand a bit: I suspect that you do not need screen at all, but
rather just SSH, but if you *do* need screen, it runs only on the
remote end of your SSH connection, not on your local computer.