How many shells do you have opened?

[pitupepito2000]

Hi,

Wow, I just counted the shells that I have opened, and I can't believe that I have 7 shells opened.
1 from the virtual terminal that I used to startx
1 for irssi (IRC client)
1 for compiling/testing x.org
1 for vim
1 that I alway keep around to launch programs
2 for misc things such as ssh'ing to other machines

How many shells do you have opened and what do you usually used them for?

 

[kylef]

Usually 5, and this is on WinXP.

1. Platform SDK build environment, set to build X86 debug
2. Platform SDK build environment, set to build X86 release
3. Platform SDK build environment, set to build X86-64 debug
4. NTSD debugger console
5. Local KD debugging session using LiveKD from Sysinternals

Occasionally I open a sixth for running random scripts and commands which might pollute the build environments.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Not very many right now: 4

 

[n0cmonkey]

8 xterms: playing with ports, making absolutely horrific blackbox themes, irssi, and various other things
screen: using 1 or 2 shells for my distributed computing client and whatnot

Pretty light for me.

 

[drag]

I usually have 3-4 going. I close out and open up a lot of shells though, continiously. If I want something to execute that would take more then a couple hours I open up screen and run it in there and close out the xterm.

 

[pitupepito2000]

I can remember when I started using Linux, how much I avoided the use of the shell, and non-gui based tools, and now, I have shells autostart, and that's the first thing that I open when I log in :0

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: drag

I usually have 3-4 going. I close out and open up a lot of shells though, continiously. If I want something to execute that would take more then a couple hours I open up screen and run it in there and close out the xterm.

I used to have 3-4 screen sessions running at a time, but I always forgot which one was which. Now I have extra xterms sitting open so I don't have to spend a second opening a new one all of the time.

 

[TonyRic]

I am typically running 7-10 xterms, for various things on different servers and workstations. Plus a number of X Apps running on other machines.

 

[Nothinman]

I generally run 1 xterm with screen in it, right now I have screen on a remote machine inside of screen locally. The remote session has 10 shells and the local one 6, the remote one always starts out at 7 though because I have screen launch with 2 shells local, 2 to my mail server, 2 to my firewall and 1 to my alpha. The history buffer and copy/paste of screen alone is almost worth it.