Thanks for the detailed response, John. When you say KDE, do you mean the desktop alternative to Gnome?
On Sunday, September 14, 2014 2:11:14 AM UTC-7, John Little wrote: > On Sunday, September 14, 2014 2:16:02 PM UTC+12, Sonny Chee wrote: > > Thanks for insight John. Do you use an alternate terminal emulator that > > offers tabs and scrollbars? > > (They all do scrollbars I think.) > > My DE is the K one, so konsole is the first choice. I'd resisted it for > years because KDE has no setting for the blink rate, and the gnome settings > has a control for it. I use set > guicursor=a:blinkwait200-blinkon200-blinkoff200 in gvim, effectively a 5 Hz > blink, and the default 1 Hz is just too anaemic. So I stuck with > gnome-terminal for years, running a gnome-settings-daemon manually. Then > gnome-terminal started fighting with kwin, and I switched to xterm for a > while, it has (slightly weird) scroll bars and can set the blink on and off > times; and it is supported really well. But I don't think it does tabs, > which I don't use much anyway, preferring to open lots of windows. > > Then I discovered Trolltech.conf has a setting for the blink rate > (cursorFlashTime), and went back to konsole, which has tabs and nice > configuration gui stuff. (With xterm you either learn 100 command line > options or 100 names of X "resources".) > > Have you tried KDE? If you like vim, I expect you'll like KDE. > > > Regards, John Little -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
