Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 27 December 2005 at 18:06:36 -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote on Dec, 27: > > [...] > > > > I've recently switched from KDE to Xfce and tracking this thread has been > > > very > > > useful. I also tried mrxvt. Excellent first impression but it limps i

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-27 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 4:49 am, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Excellent first impression but it limps in a very > essential feature to my taste: it display ugly-looking glyphs for > line-drawing > characters when you use FreeType fonts and ncurses applications, such as > mutt, > apt

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-27 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Richard Lyons wrote on Dec, 27: [...] > > I've recently switched from KDE to Xfce and tracking this thread has been > > very > > useful. I also tried mrxvt. Excellent first impression but it limps in a > > very > > essential feature to my taste: it display ugly-looking glyphs for > > line-dr

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 27 December 2005 at 8:49:59 -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote on Dec, 27: > > [...] > > > Yes, this has been very useful: I like mrxvt too. It avoids the problem > > that some terminals have of trapping F10 so that you cannot easily get > > out of mc.

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-27 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Richard Lyons wrote on Dec, 27: [...] > Yes, this has been very useful: I like mrxvt too. It avoids the problem > that some terminals have of trapping F10 so that you cannot easily get > out of mc. On the other hand, it shares the other problem of being left > in reverse video when you do quit

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday, 26 December 2005 at 15:58:43 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Brad Sims wrote: > >On Sunday 25 December 2005 5:19 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > >>Thanks Brad for the suggestion. I just hope the OP likes it as much as I > >>am liking it > > > > > >Your welcome... > > > >The comman

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-26 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 26 December 2005 5:51 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any work around for that? Edit the command launched by the icon. Create your panel button as normal. Right-click -> properties Application tab -> Command -- Disclaimer: Elvis would agree with me, b

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-26 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Shapiro wrote: > I really like the tabs on konsole MUCH better than opening a new xterm > window. Is there anything else out there that can do tabs that is not > tied to a huge DE? You could just choose a window manager that supports tabs natively, and then every program you have would aut

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Brad Sims wrote: On Sunday 25 December 2005 5:19 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Thanks Brad for the suggestion. I just hope the OP likes it as much as I am liking it Your welcome... The command I use to emulate konsole with white on black background is the following all on one line: "mr

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Brad Sims wrote: On Sunday 25 December 2005 5:19 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Thanks Brad for the suggestion. I just hope the OP likes it as much as I am liking it Your welcome... The command I use to emulate konsole with white on black background is the following all on one li

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-26 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 25 December 2005 5:19 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Thanks Brad for the suggestion. I just hope the OP likes it as much as I > am liking it Your welcome... The command I use to emulate konsole with white on black background is the following all on one line: "mrxvt -stt -rv -sr -

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Reading d-u is always worth it. I just tried out mrxvt and it indeed is a very good alternative for konsole. It solves one problem, which I could not solve with konsole, namely, "How to change the title of a tab to the current directory automatically?" That is an FA

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Brad Sims wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 2:41 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: I really like the tabs on konsole MUCH better than opening a new xterm window. Is there anything else out there that can do tabs that is not tied to a huge DE? mrxvt - lightweight multi-tabbed X terminal emul

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-25 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 24 December 2005 2:41 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I really like the tabs on konsole MUCH better than opening a new xterm > window.  Is there anything else out there that can do tabs that is not > tied to a huge DE? mrxvt - lightweight multi-tabbed X terminal emulator Mrxvt is

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday, 24 December 2005 at 15:13:38 -0600, Adam Fabian wrote: > konsole: xterm + screen > kate: xemacs > kcalc: gnu calc, xcalc, bc, dc > > Xterm + screen won't give you clickable tabs, but if you use > 'hardstatus alwayslastline %w', and change your shell prompt to modify > the name of the

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-24 Thread Adam Fabian
konsole: xterm + screen kate: xemacs kcalc: gnu calc, xcalc, bc, dc Xterm + screen won't give you clickable tabs, but if you use 'hardstatus alwayslastline %w', and change your shell prompt to modify the name of the window, you have something better and faster than clickable tabs, truthfully. Ema