On Monday, August 01, 2011 07:45:41 AM Erik Christiansen did opine:
> On 01.08.11 00:47, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Monday, August 01, 2011 12:45:31 AM Kyle Kerr did opine:
> > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:04 AM, gene heskett <[email protected]>
> > > wrote: Ubuntu has a keyboard shortcut to access the
> > > terminal/konsole, ctrl+alt+t.
> >
> > And why has it taken me 8 or 9 years to hear that? Thank you very
> > much.
>
> Gene, I'll +1 that. :-)
>
> Despite preferring to use less effort than even ctrl+alt+t, with four
> xterms being automatically started for me by gnome.
>
> My ~/.gnomerc is:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ~/bin/xterms & # A script which starts 4 xterms, tiled to please.
>
> ----------------------
>
> For just one, we could replace the xterms line with these:
>
> col='-fg yellow -bg darkslategrey -cr red' # Colours
> f='-fn 10x20' # 3 mm fontsize
> w=100 # Width
> l=50 # Length
>
> /usr/bin/xterm $col $f $scroll -geometry ${w}x${l}+0+80 &
>
> ----------------------
>
> But if the additional script is used, it can also open mutt in an xterm
> in the top right corner, with customised double-click character class
> behaviour, so all of a URL is picked up by the mouse. (The left hand
> terminal is made to pick up "Full pathnames, IPs, email addresses,
> simple URLs, lhs or rhs of =", which suits me better for general use.
> A third xterm for my on-line manual has other settings again, to better
> pick up that kind of material.[1])
>
> If a computer doesn't have at least one xterm open at all times, then
> I'm at a loss to use it.
>
> Erik
>
> [1] Displayed/updated daily, using vim. Last night I added folding, so
> that the 20,200 lines now display as 150 section headings, like a
> TOC. That shows I could slightly tidy up what has accumulated over a
> couple of decades.
I have one mailing list in kmail that goes back a decade or more, several
gigabytes that I like to take everything up to a year ago and move to a
different folder for storage, but I haven't even started on a script to do
that. It takes kmail about 10 seconds to find a new message, and half an
hour to rebuild the index.
I never quite got used to xterm, finding konsole more to my liking. Better
fonts among other things. But the ctrl+alt_+t will be handy once I get my
mill running again. I haven't settled on a breakout board yet but am
looking fondly at the C1G from cnc4pc as it looks to have all the
expansions I might need, touch probe etc.
Cheers, gene
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