On 5/16/06, Daniel Waeber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Willie Wong wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:56:46PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked:
>>> I also looked for a drop-down term. Couldn't find one that I really
>>> liked, so just made a wrapper myself for aterm in fvwm using a
>>> borderless window, key binding for focus and shading, and EdgeCommand.
>>>
>>> It is quite convenient.
>> What do you guys mean by `drop-down'?
>>
>
> Do you play FPS? Think how in many of those games you can hit ~ to
> bring down a console that convers half the screen...
>
> The basic idea (for me, at least) is a terminal window that is sticky
> (so persists between desktops) and, normally, is shaded. It should be
> able to react to a keyboard trigger so it unrolls from the top of the
> screen and stays always on top and doesn't lose focus when it is
> unrolled.
>
> HTH,
>
> W
Sounds nice. But i don't want kdelibs on my system. I use wmii-3. It is
highly configurable, so hopefully i am able to make a script that can do
this job with any x terminal. And if you use xcompmgr and transset-df
you can make the terminal transparent.
A twenty line bash script is a bit faster as kdelibs.
Yup. You go man! I just use YaKuake 'cause KDELibs is already on my
system and in memory whenever I'm using my laptop. If you're a KDE
fan it's really nice, though I'm all for other WMs. I always try out
new WMs whenever I get the chance. I'm particularly fond of fvwm,
though it didn't work on Gentoo. I can't say I have the patience,
drive or motive to make it work yet, but I am, for the record, a very
pro-variety person.
I'm also for M$ making a WM for linux and calling that Windows. If
you start thinking it through, and minding that M$ engineers aren't
evil bug-making machines, and rather overworked underpaid programmers
trying to make an artificial corporate deadline, the advantages for
both M$ and the Linux community are very great. We'd have to murder
Steve Ballmer though - he's waaaay to proud to ever do something like
that.
And why am I not signing my messages anymore? I'm using the GMail
webface right now, and...
I killed .kde3.4 and .kde in my ~/ folder. KDE was running so darn
slow and now its running much much faster. I didn't know that'd kill
my KMail inbox... now I know. I haven't had the time to set KMail
back up yet, so for now I'm using GMail's wonderful web interface
again. It's not that bad... invites for whoever wants 'em it you
just ask me.
Anyways... just to keep this on-topic...
perhaps the best way to work with the CLI is without a WM. That is,
after all, what the WM is doing... at least to my meagre knowledge of
Unix architecture.
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