Ok, Mates, I have a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway. What is the basic difference between a "konsole" window and an "x-terminal" window in KDE? Seems like they behave pretty much the same to me. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 3:55 pm, david rankin wrote:
Ok, Mates,
I have a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway. What is the basic difference between a "konsole" window and an "x-terminal" window in KDE? Seems like they behave pretty much the same to me. History and authors. xterm is the original terminal window program distributed with The X Window System, and is common to virtually all X implementations. Konsole is the KDE terminal window written by the KDE people. And there are many others, such as gnome-terminal - from the GNOME project
The advantage of Konsole is that it is integrated into KDE, and the
advantage of gnome-terminal is that it is integrated into GNOME.
They all do just about the same type of thing. Some have transparent
features, others are configurable through menus.
There is a terminology issue also.
In most Linux systems, there are also "virtual terminals" (ctrl-alt-F1 for
instance). These are different. And you will notice that the system console
is designated as tty1 (virtual terminal 1), and all system console messages
are directed to tty1. Even the terminal emulation can be changed. You will
note that the TERM environment variable is generally set to "xterm", but
can be set to a number of different terminal emulations.
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Jerry Feldman
From: "Jerry Feldman"
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 3:55 pm, david rankin wrote:
Ok, Mates,
I have a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway. What is the basic difference between a "konsole" window and an "x-terminal" window in KDE? Seems like they behave pretty much the same to me. History and authors. xterm is the original terminal window program distributed with The X Window System, and is common to virtually all X implementations. Konsole is the KDE terminal window written by the KDE people. And there are many others, such as gnome-terminal - from the GNOME project
The advantage of Konsole is that it is integrated into KDE, and the advantage of gnome-terminal is that it is integrated into GNOME.
They all do just about the same type of thing. Some have transparent features, others are configurable through menus.
There is a terminology issue also. In most Linux systems, there are also "virtual terminals" (ctrl-alt-F1 for instance). These are different. And you will notice that the system console is designated as tty1 (virtual terminal 1), and all system console messages are directed to tty1. Even the terminal emulation can be changed. You will note that the TERM environment variable is generally set to "xterm", but can be set to a number of different terminal emulations.
Thanks Jerry! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 4:34 pm, david rankin wrote:
Thanks Jerry! You are Welcome since I am a former neighbor (eg. New Orleans - Tulane) and I know where Nacogdoches is :-)
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Jerry Feldman
From: "Jerry Feldman"
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 4:34 pm, david rankin wrote:
Thanks Jerry! You are Welcome since I am a former neighbor (eg. New Orleans - Tulane) and I know where Nacogdoches is :-)
Tis a small world indeed...... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:01:12PM -0500, david rankin wrote:
From: "Jerry Feldman"
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 4:34 pm, david rankin wrote:
Thanks Jerry! You are Welcome since I am a former neighbor (eg. New Orleans - Tulane) and
I have friends from there, they say it's a great place to live. The only reaosn I couldn't live there, is the storms. I hate storms, and heat.
I know where Nacogdoches is :-)
Tis a small world indeed......
No one seems to be from Michigan here ;) Anyway, I think the answer given was a good one, KDE wanted Unix to be easier to use (And I might add, SUSE was one of the reasons KDE made it off the ground and they are thanked by KDE on the KDE page). This question if it's interesting to you, is a very large area. Eterm is from Enlightenemnt even though it doesn't HAVE to be used there (It's one of my fav terminal applications) and Wterm which is used a lot on WindowMaker and is another nice one.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --
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