On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:57 pm, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="David Kempe">
>
> > I used to enjoy the feature in konsole of multiple shell tabs in one
> > window. I can do something similar in gnome2.2 with the new tab option,
> > however I have a few questions;
> > whats the shortcut key to switch between the tabs?
>
> alt-1, alt-2, alt-3 and so on, for quick switching to specific tabs, or
> ctrl-pageup, ctrl-pagedown for cycling.
>
> > can you echo the input of one tab to all the tabs?
> > konsole has this handy feature where one tab can be like the master,
> > and whatever you type in there gets typed in all the konsoles. useful
> > for admining lots of boxes at once :)
>
> That's... well, I would call it a horrific idea. There are better ways of
> doing these kinds of admin tasks than having crackrock features in your
> terminal emulator (expect, cfengine, and so on).
>
> There was a slashdot troll about some dude who wrote a curses version of
> expose (the panther direct-manipulation window switching method) for
> working on multiple machines at the same time. Great pisstake value,
> although, now I'm scared that it was only funny due to the element of
> truth...
>
> - Jeff
Whilst I agree with your sentiments about simultaneously entering data on
many machines from a terminal emulator, I was wondering if the gnome
terminal emulator had the ability to monitor sessions for activity or lack
of it?
Konsole has a nifty feature that changes the icon on the tab (and IIRC can
optionally play a sound too) to indicate a lack of console activity or the
presence of console activity (selectable on the menu). I find those two
features to be some of the most useful in "konsole" - especially when doing
stuff like compiling code on one machine and waiting for a command to
finish on another while I cruise Usenet on a 3rd etc.
I've been on a staple KDE diet since about version 2.0 and haven't really
looked at Gnome in a long time (I watch the developement of Gnome, but
don't use it personally).
--James
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