[nycbug-talk] BSD on a desktop

Scott Robbins scottro
Sat Jul 31 13:03:12 EDT 2004


On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 12:49:07PM -0400, pete wright wrote:
> 
> On Jul 31, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:53:16AM -0400, pete wright wrote:
> >>
Heh, we're quoting too much, let me try to attribute here properly.  (I
think that emacs does it automatically, but after trying to learn it, I
settled for learning simpler operating systems) :)


> >  
> >>
>

[Pete]


>>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.
> >


[Scott]

> >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)
> >
>

[Pete]
 
> 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


It's in ports--shucks, I think it has a different name, hold on.

Ah, there it is.


/usr/ports/x11/multi-aterm

<description> a multi terminal based on aterm.  :)[1]

[1] The smiley is mine. 



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