Thanks for the suggestion, Wayne, but I really don't want to increase the number of keystrokes I use. I avoided all except the editing ones for years, but Awesome taught me to love a few more. :-)
Lxterminal seems to be working well now. Lane On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Wayne Werner <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Lane Lester <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I decided to try Eterm as the replacement terminal program. What I've >> observed is that, after I execute Eterm, my program launch of choice, >> PieDock, no longer works. Furthermore, I cannot restart it without first >> getting out of X. >> >> So I'm back "in the market" for a good terminal program. > > > You might take a look at GNU Screen - it's not a terminal emulator, but it > runs inside your terminals. It has a "fit" feature that with the simple > <ctrl>+a F keystroke combination, it will resize to whatever bounds you have > set. It might give you the behavior you're looking for. > > Plus it has the added benefit of being able to detach from the session so > you can have the same set of screens wherever you log in, horizontally and > vertically split the screens. It's quite robust, and has a fairly easy > learning curve. > > Good luck! > -Wayne >
