Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 16 May 2006 18:06:07 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: KHotkeys uses a text config file, although it's layout is even more arcane than that of xbindkeys. Where is it? ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc enjoy :) -- Neil Bothwick There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Lord Sauron
On 16 May 2006 15:25:58 -0500, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on a miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its ultra-accessibility. Anywhere you can just hit your key combination and *pop*

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On May 9 19:33, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use aterm exclusively. It opens

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Jure Varlec squawked: I use yakuake. It's the the best drop-down terminal I've ever used, and I believe I tried almost all of them (there really aren't many). Off the top of my head, I recall

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on a miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its ultra-accessibility. Anywhere you can just hit your key combination and *pop* there's trusty old YaKuake. It supports multiple console tabs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 16 May 2006 15:25:58 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on a miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its ultra-accessibility. Anywhere you can just hit your key combination and *pop* there's trusty old YaKuake. It supports

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 16 May 2006 15:25:58 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on a miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its ultra-accessibility. Anywhere you can just hit your key combination and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 16 May 2006 16:35:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: If you only use KDE, you may as well define all your key bindings in KHotkeys. Maybe you haven't noticed that KHotkeys is painfully slow to use for more than one setting. Or that it cannot set several dozen Keycombos at once. No, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:56:46PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: I also looked for a drop-down term. Couldn't find one that I really liked, so just made a wrapper myself for aterm in fvwm using a borderless window, key binding for focus and shading, and EdgeCommand. It is

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 16 May 2006 16:35:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: If you only use KDE, you may as well define all your key bindings in KHotkeys. Maybe you haven't noticed that KHotkeys is painfully slow to use for more than one setting. Or that it cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 02:41 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: Samuel Baldwin wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: It provides a nice change of pace, so that way, when you're running a terminal in X, it doesn't look exactly like the regular shell. Well - a terminal is

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Remy Blank
Alexander Skwar wrote: My text color is black, as my background is white, which is, BTW, the best to read for the majority of people (if you're not handicapped, that is). That's so, because the contrast between the text and the background cannot be higher than with black on white (or white on

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Simon Kellett
b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neil Bothwick wrote: ... At home I use rxvt. Simple, very fast on startup. At work I use konsole. I like the session thing it has and the tabs, since I use a lot of interactive shell apps like python-ipython-octave at work they often comes quite handy. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 02:41 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: Samuel Baldwin wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. IMO transparency is one of

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
* Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [09/05/06 21:45]: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I mostly use xterm, since it's fast and has almost all of

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Peter
On Tue, 09 May 2006 19:33:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting comment

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/9/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 09 May 2006 19:33:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: E-Term is pretty and extensible and thememable too. I like the kde terminal program also because of the tabs you can have on the bottom to open multiple, discreet sessions. It really comes down to

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Remy Blank
Richard Fish wrote: I use konsole, for no other reason than it is the default in my favorite DE. My configuration is pretty minimalistic, no tab or menu bars. Same here. I use no special terminal features at all, except the scrollback, which is pretty standard everywhere. I sometimes use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Justin Findlay wrote: I find that one of the most attractive features of a terminal application is transparency That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. IMO transparency is one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Alexander Skwar wrote: Justin Findlay wrote: I find that one of the most attractive features of a terminal application is transparency That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/9/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? It can be really annoying if you overdo it, and you have to find the right balance of opacity and colors (since lots of terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Alexander Skwar wrote: That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. IMO transparency is one of the most useless features. True, it's not that usefull, but it does look nice. It provides

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Findlay wrote: I find that one of the most attractive features of a terminal application is transparency That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Samuel Baldwin wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: That's something I'll never understand - why make the text on a terminal harder to read, by using transparency? Granted, it'll look better, but that's it. IMO transparency is one of the most useless features. True, it's not that usefull, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Alexander Skwar wrote: Well - a terminal is something to work with. And this has to be functional and not provide a change of pace.Yeah. True. I like that thing though. Cause, since I use different backgrounds for each of my desktops, depending on what desktop I'm using, I'll get a different