begin Steve Juranich quotation: > Last night, while I was doing my nightly 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I caught the > new gnome-terminal package (2.0). I can't help but saying that I think it > really stinks. :<
I got the new gnome-terminal yesterday too, but I haven't actually run it yet. Thanks for the review. I stopped using gnome-terminal 1.x some months back because it had a habit of dropping the first typed character when it was opened. The way I have my desktop set up, I read mail by clicking on the mail icon in gkrellm, which then opens a terminal window running mutt. I read the mail, reply if needed, then close that window. So I open new terminals frequently, and the frequent-but-not-always dropping of the first keystroke was annoying. So I switched to rxvt and have been quite happy with it. In fact, I've moved away from Gnome as an environment in many ways. I still use gdm, but I don't have it start up a Gnome session anymore; I just have it execute ~/.Xsession, which starts up a non-Gnome wm (fluxbox), loads a few dockapps, and opens an rxvt window. I still use a number of Gnome apps (Dia, Abiword, Gnumeric, ...) but having all those app servers, orbs, and whatnot running just to have gnome-panel seemed like a waste. I'll probably give Gnome 2 a try once the whole mass of it hits unstable. Craig
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