On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Andrew Benton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:33:51 +1300 > Simon Geard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think the question still stands, though. Does BLFS need another >> terminal emulator? And also, does Roxterm really need to be in the book? >> From your instructions, it's a trivial configure/make/make-install >> build... something that any user could do with their eyes closed... > > BLFS has xterm, but that is quite basic, it doesn't support dragging > and dropping a file into the window. I can't live with any of the > terminal emulators in the book. I started writing these pages because > most of the things I use to get stuff done are not in the book. There's > more to a BLFS page than configure/make/make-install. The dependencies > are important. In this case, the dependency vte2_90 is also not in the > book so I had to write that too. BLFS also has something called rxvt-unicode, which I used, but it's missing a key feature that I want for building the book: Copy and paste. I agree with you, Benton, about putting Roxterm in the book.
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