On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 21:02, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:43:38PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Just tried konsole and gnome terminal. Neither of them currently seem > > to work this way, at least the versions in unstable don't. Even if > > konsole supported this I could not use it, it took 10 seconds to start. > > I guess you have a fast machine. I just timed konsole's startup on my > 2.66GHz box, and it took 22 seconds to get the window on the screen. >
No, actually, it's much slower than that, it probably took more like a minute to come up. I just said 10 seconds because I could not believe it had really taken that long, and figured I must not have been paying attention. Wow, has KDE gotten bloated. > > It seems like the mouse thing would be easy, if a click starts inside a > > tab, that tab is part of the selection region. Same policy as clicking > > on a space, you just treat tab as a big space. Then again I have never > > hacked a terminal program so I can't really say. > > It's more complicated than that. xterm stores tabs expanded, and uses > that in repainting (iirc, essentially the proposed patch set a bit at > the beginning of the tab, so "all" that was left was to make the selection > mechanism work). Ah, ok. Well, someone will fix this eventually. Maybe I will make a feature request for gnome terminal. Thanks for the info. Lee
