On 2016-10-27, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > When I used unix in the 1980s, the full screen ran csh until one started > another full screen application. MSDOS was the same. Every contemporary > photo of modern Linux or Mac I have seen has a desktop with windows just > like Windows. Do people on Linux still commonly use full-screen,
It depends on your definition of "commonly". I do it fairly regularly, but only for short periods of time while doing system maintenance stuff. > no window text editors like the one I had? Don't know what you mean by "window text editors" > On Windows, there are full screen games, but I have never seen a > full-screen, no-window text application. Just con't conflate "full-screen" with "command-line" or "terminal" applications. I do use terminal applications all day, every day, but I mostly run them in terminal emulator windows on top of X11 (that way I can have lots of terminals of various sizes and shapes). > Since modern screen are pixel graphics screens, rather than character > screens, there must be a widget, whether standard with the OS or custom > to the console, that emulates the old fixed-pitch character screens. Yes. On Unix they're called terminal emulators, and I use lots of them them constantly. This post is being edited in one. > At least on Windows, C Programs that run with the console still get > characters entered by users and send characters to be displayed. On Unix, a terminal emulator on an X11/Wayland desktop, a linux video console, a real serial terminal connected to an RS-232C serial port, or a "screen" session <https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/> all behave pretty much the same. The API supported by the pty driver, the video console tty driver, and the real serial-port tty driver, all provide a common set of API calls. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I wish I was on a at Cincinnati street corner gmail.com holding a clean dog! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
