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"twin"

By Juergen Haas, About.com

Definition: twin: a Text mode WINdow environment. Twin is a windowing environment with mouse support, window manager, terminal emulator and networked clients, all inside a text display. It supports a variety of displays: * plain text terminals (any termcap/ncurses compatible terminal, Linux console, twin's own terminal emulator * X11, where it can be used as a multi-window xterm; * itself (you can display a twin on another twin); * twdisplay, a general network-transparent display client, used to attach/ detach more displays on-the-fly. [p]................................. [br]Source: Debian 3.0r0 APT / Linux Dictionary V 0.16 [br]http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html [br]Author: Binh Nguyen linuxfilesystem(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au [br]................................. [p] [link url=/library/glossary/blglossary.htm][b]> Linux/Unix/Computing Glossary[/b][/link]_z_linux_z_);

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