On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:40 AM, BRM <[email protected]> wrote: > I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, > preferably for KDE4. > Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not > being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update process - > something a GUI _ought_ to be able to resolve.
This is one place where those quake-like terminals comes in handy. I use tilda, for KDE there's yakuake. Basically they allow you to press a single key and a terminal pops down from the top of the screen. I usually have one of those running all the time: I have a tab or two devote to emerges, another tab handling an SSH -X session to some other computer, and maybe a tab or two devoted to some command line tasks. Press a single key and it all goes out of sight. You'll probably want to run the compile in one screen session, then tail -f the emerge log in one of the tabs. -- This email is: [ ] actionable [x] fyi [x] social Response needed: [ ] yes [x] up to you [ ] no Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [x] none
