Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Nikolic wrote:
> On Monday 31 October 2005 16:35, Sid Boyce wrote:
> > François Pinard wrote:
> > > [Steven T. Hatton]
> > >
> > > > Every once in a while, when I start a new xterm, bash will not give me
> > > > a prompt.  This has happened on different machines, and under the last
> > > > few SuSE distributions.  It's a very minor annoyance, but it's so
> > > > fundamental to the very concept of Linux/Unix (http://www.unix.org/)
> > > > that it needs to be addressed.  Have other's noticed this?
> > > I observed this, indeed, but it was many years ago.  I never understood
> > > the origin of the problem, and it apparently vanished all by itself
> > >
> > > :-).  Everything has been working perfectly for me, in this area, for a
> > >
> > > long time now.  I have no clue about what the problem could have been...
> > Many distros ago the same thing, so I switched to gnome-terminal and I
> > exclusively use konsole, both of which do tabs as opposed to messy
> > multiple xterm windows, about time it was pensioned off. Just
> > remembered, xterm is not installed in Mandriva by default.
> > Regards
> > Sid.
> > --
> > Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot
> > Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support
> > Specialist
> > Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
>
> Nowt wrong with xterms me lad .. :-) .... cant stand that kterminal thingy  ..
>
>
> Pete .

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.
Regards
Sid.
--
Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot
Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
Specialist
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks