[nycbug-talk] BSD on a desktop

[pete wright]

On Jul 31, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:

> 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)
>

cool thanks!  that may be exactly what i'm looking for.  is it a sf.net 
project...i guess i could just google it.

cheers,
	pete

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> Riley: I thought maybe we could have a little spread. Sandwiches,
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