One of my long, long standing complaints against gnome-term is that it
does not support anything like the -ksh mode for dtterm. I use emacs
keybindings in my shell, and I very, very much prefer to be able to have
my Meta- chords converted to ESC- prefixes like dtterm does. Actually,
these days I'm using xterm with XTerm*eightBitInput: false in my Xresources.
(Yes, I know this compromises my ability to use certain international
keystrokes, but I am exclusively a US ASCII user, and happily give up
the ability to enter UTF-8 at the keyboard in exchange for a more useful
binding for Meta.)
This is enough of a stopper for me, that I refuse to use either
gnome-terminal or the KDE terminal (for the same reason).
At one point I even wrote some diffs for gnome-terminal to fix this, but
they've long since stagnated and I don't even know if I still can find them.
-- Garrett
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>> Binary downloads for JDS Vermillion Development build
>> 51 are now available from:
>> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/current/
>>
>> NOTE: 'Development' refers to the fact that this
>> build is not yet sufficiently
>> stable for Solaris Nevada Integration. We are
>> currently using a Stable build
>> based on GNOME 2.14 in Solaris Nevada. While this
>> build is based on
>> GNOME 2.16, it should be considered to be of similar
>> quality to GNOME
>> 2.15 Development builds.
>>
>> Spec files used in the build are also available.
>> This build requires snv_48 or greater.
>>
>> This build is based on GNOME 2.16.1.
>>
>> Installation Instructions
>> =========================
>> 1) As root, disable the postrun and dbus services to
>> avoid install-time
>> error messages:
>> # svcadm disable svc:/system/postrun:default
>> # svcadm disable svc:/system/dbus:default
>>
>> The HAL packages have been incorporated into the
>> installer so do not have to be installed manually, as
>> was the case for the last JDS Development build.
>>
>
> Gnome-term now works. Also in the previous beta version, assigning the
> desktop icon would cause Nautilus to crash. This problem seems to have been
> solved. Overall, the speed seems to be faster, but I don't have quantitative
> measure.
>
> Some packages failed to be installed, many of them are java-related. I
> simply ignored those error messages, and proceeded to the end of
> installation, then rebooted. Now I am posting this message from JDS
> Vermillion Development build 51.
>
>
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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/
Phone: 951 325-2134 Fax: 951 325-2191
