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[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Tuesday 2005-11-01 at 04:42 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
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> > Except if you are trying to do stuff across a number of boxes (4/5) each
> > needing 2 ssh sessions, 10 xterms would be a nightmare as opposed to
> > gnometerminal or konsole which keep things tidy and manageable all on one
> > screen.
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> There are programs that work much better on an xterm than on 
> gnome-terminal or konsole - for instance, Pine. Other, like 'mc', whose 
> "F10" key for exit is captured by the gnome-terminal and interpreted to 
> show the terminal menu instead.
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> Cheers,
>        Carlos Robinson

OK, I just fired pine up but I have no messages in the INBOX, couldn't 
spot any differences between xterm and konsole, same goes for mc. 
Perhaps I'd have to be using those apps on a more regular basis to see 
the problems. As a KDE user I don't use gnometerminal and have yet to 
find a problem with konsole on SuSE, Mandriva or gentoo. Once konsole 
had matured, I haven't used xterm, multixterm (more or less same deal as 
xterm, a little less confusion but the same clutter even on 21 inch 
screens), rxvt or any of the other terminals available.
Regards
Sid.
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