xterm

On the PHPFreak.de blog there's a new post talking about the author's quest to find the "holy development environment", the one that would make a developer most productive and give them the best features to do their work.

Tip of theTrade: "It's handy if you're using a console rather than an xterm, or if you're connected to another machine, as it means you can do multiple things at once without having to move to another console or open another ssh connection."

Lots of times it's extremely frustrating or time consuming to run an xterm on a remote host just to fork your programs from that remote machine.

Why not just run your window manager there even though you're not on its console? The window manager is just another X application, after all, isn't it?

Fire off your local X server

xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :1 &

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