Window managers

[Mark Szidik]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Adam McDougall wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Edward Glowacki wrote:
>
> > Quoted from Matt Graham on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:13:43PM -0400:
> > > Sean <picasso@madflower.com> wrote:
> > > > On 10 Apr 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > >> Strangely enough, I've been finding X much more usable on my new
> > > >> laptop than on my desktop.  I think it has something to do with
> > > >> the screen itself.  I find it really hard to stare at bright
> > > >> white windows on a CRT, but not nearly so bad on this TFT.  Maybe
> > > >> the TFT just looks more like a sheet of paper, with less "glow"
> > > >> than a CRT.
> > >
> > > This is why konsole and Eterm have the "linux console" color scheme.  Mmm,
> > > gray (or green!) text on black background.  Seriously, anyone who spends much
> > > time within xterms may wish to check out konsole; its "virtual terminal within
> > > a window" approach doesn't do anything screen doesn't do, but is almost as
> > > addictive as virtual desktops.
> >
> > I'm glad I finished reading the thread before replying, because I was
> > about to say, "ACK!  WTF you doing with black-on-white xterms?!?!" ;)
> >
> > As for Konsole, there's some stuff about it I like, but it has issues like,
> > "How do I set the terminal type every time I start a Konsole?" so I can get
> > color in my applications?  (and no, there is no command line argument to
> > give it a terminal type, nor any preference/setting that I can find, nor
> > any reference to it on the KDE web site, nor elsewhere that Google can
> > find given my search terms...)
> >

I like Konsole too.  But for certain things like connecting to machines
expecting vt100 terminals I use gnome-terminal.  When using it as a
regular xterm it supports color.

-Mark