[nycbug-talk] BSD on a desktop

[Scott Robbins]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:53:16AM -0400, pete wright wrote:
> 
> On Jul 30, 2004, at 9:05 PM, G.Rosamond wrote:
> 
> >I'm working on a outline of making FreeBSD a useful desktop.  It's 
> >
> 
> That's about it, must of the "real" utilities i use are in a shell 
> anyway.  I've tried using OOo, but really think it's over kill for my 
> admin duties.  Abiword has no problems with .doc formats and gnumeric I 
> think is better than Excell, and I read somewhere that it's infact more 
> precise than excell....

Yes, I would use it were it not for the need for Japanese.

> 
> For me it's really the tabbed shells that won me over with using GNOME 
> or KDE.  You can use tab's in gnome-term, but it's kinda crappy 
> compared to konsole.  if you have not tried it out, the default 
> shortcut is ctl+shift+t to make a new tab, and shift+left/right arrow 
> key moves from tab to tab.

Just for fun, you might try materm, another x-terminal with tabs.  
(I prefer separate terminals myself, and fluxbox allows me to move them
around the screen with a keystroke combo)

-- 

Scott 

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