Andy Koppe wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
What is the native Windows look and feel other than the Window frame?
- scrollbar
- right-click menu (also reachable via menu key)
- options dialog, with font and colour selectors
- copy&paste behaviour (copy-on-demand, Ctrl-Ins copies, shift-left
click extends)
- drag&drop
OK. None of this is particularly important... to me..
and the options dialog (which among other things allows you to
configure it in an Xish way).
What could be more Xish then X Resources, which rxvt pays total
attention to?
That point wasn't about rxvt. I was just saying that you're not stuck
with Windows-style behaviour in MinTTY. (Btw, the options dialog isn't
compulsory either; MinTTY can be configured via .minttyrc, although
that's in need of documentation.)
My point is that rxvt pays attention to .Xdefaults which is very Xish IMHO.
And just a little helping of eye candy: - Window transparency (which
can be disabled when the window is active).
There's transparency with rxvt too. Try -ip.
From the manpage:
-ip|+ip Turn on/off inheriting parent window's pixmap.
Alternative is -tr; resource inheritPixmap.
Now I don't really understand what that's supposed to mean, but I'm
pretty sure it's not proper alpha blending. In any case, all that
option achieves on my Vista machine is to make window moves and
resizes very slow.
Oh I didn't say it was the best thing since sliced bread, just that rxvt
does transparency of a sort too.
- Fullscreen mode.
My rxvt maximizes. What you mean there's still a window frame?
Doesn't bother me. And the amount of times when I really want to
waste all of my screen real estate on one window can be counted on
one hand...
Different people, different preferences. MinTTY inherited that feature
from PuTTY, and I didn't see any reason to remove it. Actually I
rather like fullscreen mode, not so much for the extra space as for
the removal of any visual distractions.
Indeed, different strokes for different folks.
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