twin is a great tool for connecting to a remote box and having the ability to have several consoles in a gui kind'a way.
There are other, more light-weight tools, such as screen, which is another means of leaving tasks running in the background.
The reason for this usage is so that I can have notes somewhere as a quick reference.
Connect to the box you want to fire up twin on. If you are using SSH the also pass the -XC arguments to turn on X11 forwarding and Compression.
If you don't already have a session then you start twin like this:
twin -hw=X
This was the part I most wanted, but found most elusive. If you already
have a twin session running you should see it in ps -aux.
Usually this will be twin :0. In this case to re-attach to this
instance you need to twattach -twin@:0 -hw=X.
