Re: Cygwin Screen Tabbed Consoles

[Brian Mathis]

arsheth99 wrote:
> I am a DBA and I recently started using Cygwin and discovered screen to be a
> great tool.  I searched through the forum first to make sure I did not miss
> any previous posts but could not find an answer.  I want to use screen with
> the tabs across the screen to easily navigate between consoles.  How do I
> set that up, I created a home directory and my user directory  underneath
> that.  I think I need to create a .screenrc, what do I need to put in the
> file to enable the tabbing.  I searched through the forum first to make sure
> I did not miss any previous posts but could not find an answer.  I
> appreciate any help.  When I do a uname -a I get the following.  
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 D630-0000735 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2007-12-14 19:21 i686 Cygwin
>
> Thanks
>   

You may find the information here useful:
  http://directedge.us/node/39
Screen does not have tabs per se, but that config will give you a status
bar on the bottom that's very helpful.

You will also find that using rxvt with cygwin, instead of the default
cmd shell, works much better and give you a more unix-like experience. 
If you do, this might be useful in your Xdefaults:
  http://directedge.us/node/41