sci -rep 2011 -1
Forskningsavdelningen, Science Report | (0)
Collaboration-tool-shootout.
Kugg and Olle3 were doing collaboration now there are some different technologies in GNU /Linux systems to share one screen on two remote computers Olle and Kugg tried some of them.
The not so neat thing with "screen" collaboration is that there is only one cursor. However local editing and pasting makes that endurable.
Mini howto (hosting party):
screen -S loldongs
C-a :multiuser on
C-a :acladd root
Howto screen (client):
sudo screen -r loldongs/
We discussed the possibility of using a "Posix pipe" (fifo) for shared editing. It worked one way.
Fifo filesharing howto (host)
mkfifo /tmp/loldongs
chmod o+r /tmp/loldongs
cat >> /tmp/loldongs
"lorem ipsum type type type
C-d
Fifo filesharing (client read only):
tail ...
