On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:32:00 +0100
Fernando de Oliveira <[email protected]> wrote:

> My problem may be due to other rox* in that machine. I was trying to choose a 
> file manager, so tried many: mc, thunar, pacmanfm and rox. When trying rox, I 
> used used 0install, have many directories with that and with rox-all, etc. 
> Tried moving out all old rox related, but problem persisted.

That sounds likely, I've never used 0install, I like to know what's
been installed and where, that's why the Rox-filer page in the book
puts almost everything into /usr/share/rox

> Finally, must say that I was suspicious about roxterm, and would stick to 
> terminator, and start a discussion asking for it in the book.
> 
> However, both do essentially the same, with main difference being how to 
> customize, so *I can live with roxterm*. The most important similarity is 
> having tabs *and* drag and drop re-ordering of terminals, lxterminal lacks 
> this.
> 
> The things I see terminator excels roxterm are "simultaneous typing to 
> arbitrary groups of terminals" and the possibility to divide the terminal 
> window with a grid of terminals:
> 
> http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html
> 
> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pBBJoLyOUbs/Ti9BfXqRu7I/AAAAAAAADUk/Uw-4Zy9pAQU/s320/2008-08-17-terminator.png
> 
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qyMP81mKst8/Ti9BhfyHm0I/AAAAAAAADU0/etHIgq6-g3k/s320/terminator.png
> 
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4-232D1ndA/Ti9BgR98CsI/AAAAAAAADUs/XaLH04i6CW0/s320/terminator-mad.png
> 
> the last image is referred to as "ridiculous" by the author
> 
> Although very interesting, I never used those but grid, just for curiosity.

I like to be able to drag a file into a terminal window but I don't
need anything more advanced than that. I've just stopped using roxterm
as it has a bug with gtk+-3.4: I can't scroll back with the scroll
wheel. I can scroll fine in other gtk+-3 app but not roxterm :/ So I've
gone back to using Xfce's terminal which uses gtk+-2 and the gtk+-2
version of vte, vte-0.28.2. Xfce's terminal has a few more dependencies
than Roxterm as it uses some Xfce things but it works fine.

Andy
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