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Are the Mac OS X GUI and a Terminal session peers?

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Mar 15, 20266067 views
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I'm trying to get to grips with UNIX. If I open up a Terminal in Mac OS X and run , I see (I don't know if "session" is the right term) I assume that is my Terminal session. Does represent the entire Mac OS X GUI's session? The GUI session is obviously fancier and more complex, but is it a peer to …

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USER       TTY
myusername console
myusername s001

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Someone with more knowledge about this can feel free to correct me here! is your TTY. It's the terminal you're connected to the machine via. The GUI is, as you said, a means of logging on to the server, and therefore it shows as . It does have , , a…

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