Le 21/01/2016 12:33, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:03:18AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
Le 21/01/2016 05:57, Simon Wise a écrit :
On 19/01/16 04:59, Steve Litt wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:31:43 +1100
Simon Wise<simonzw...@gmail.com> wrote:
But recently discovered that xfce4-terminal loses critical
functionality without a session dbus running (it no longer connects
to the cut buffer and clipboard ... which really destroys its
functionality). I dropped it in favour of roxterminal which is very
similar, based on the same engine I believe, but it does the cut
buffer and clipboard etc directly, as it should.
Hi Simon,
Thanks to your recommendation, I just started using roxterm. What a
breath of fresh air! Tabbed. Multiple profiles mean all sorts of
different terminals for different needs. No unholy union to a "desktop
environment" other than the rox filemanager system.
they are independent, I think ... though perhaps some D&D might be a
bit cleaner between them??? they both just interact with X and allow
extensive file-based configuration if you want to use it. Last time I
tried both worked fine just in X alone, no other management.
I need several different types of terminal emulators for several
different types of jobs. From now on I'm using roxterm instead of
xfce4-terminal for all new construction.
"profiles" can easily be invoked on CL if you want distinctive
appearance to indicate different tasks.
Simon
I installed roxterm and rox-filer. Both are just nice behaving.
roxterm doesn't seem to differ in apearence, configurability or
behaviour, from xfce4-terminal or gnome-terminal.
rox-filer is nice looking, but it needs some configuration. Here
are the two waek points I noticed
- there is absolutely no application defined by default for any
file type; you must define them all - this is a miss in the
packaging.
- there isn't a menu of possible applications for a given file
type. I like to be able to open an image with either a simple viewer
or with Gimp to edit it.
So I tried installing it, and found that it recommended zeroinstall-injector.
Anyone know what this is? It seems to be a "platform-independent
package manager". What does this mean in relation to rox-filer. And
how does it relate to apt and aptitude.
Might it alleviate some of the above complaints?
I always use apt-get install --no-install-recommends, or "default
upgrade" in Synaptic. And I don't look at the recommended packages :-)
This "recommends" feature has become a kind of bin for packages the
maintainers would like desperately to "require" for obscure reasons, but
they fail to find a valid one.
Didier
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