On 1/14/06, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to get a multiple terminal application working, fairly quickly > now, but I seem to be hitting blocks whereever I go, so let me dribble > my woes here. > > First, I'll hit the strictly Fink-ish ones: (1) gnome-terminal, and (2) > aterm. > > (1) gnome-terminal won't seem to start a shell. I tried zsh, bash, and > two different tcsh's, all entered in /etc/shells, but I get no chars > from any of them. The mouse seems to work (I can select an entire line, > and it goes correctly to reverse video on that line) but I can never see > any echo'ed characters. I've spent a lot of hours trying different > config settings, none havef worked yet.
What version of gnome-terminal are you trying (and on what OS version, for that matter)? 2.12.0-1 works just fine for me (on Tiger). There was a prior thread on -beginners about this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners/17514 It may be that you've got the same vte/gnome-terminal version combo as was mentioned in the quoted text from me in that message. > > (2) aterm doesn't seem to have a binary executeable anywhere. I looked > over the build script from fink (I finally rebuilt it from sources, so I > could get that listing), it installs several files, but nothing > executable. I can't find it anywhere, and I havef sure looked around, > under a lot of other names besides "aterm". > This was reported a while back and has been fixed in version 0.4.2-4: $ dpkg -c /sw/fink/debs/aterm_0.4.2-4_darwin-powerpc.deb drwxr-xr-x root/admin 0 2006-01-14 21:12:03 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/admin 0 2006-01-14 21:12:03 ./sw/ drwxr-xr-x root/admin 0 2006-01-14 21:12:06 ./sw/bin/ -rwxr-xr-x root/admin 114188 2006-01-14 21:12:06 ./sw/bin/aterm ... (freshly built while I wrote this) > The other alternatives aren't fink, so while I'll continue here, you > could stop at this point. What I'm looking for (options in the "got to > have" category, you understand?) are, having control-h come from the > delete key, having multiple terminals avaiable via tabs, and use of > enough font so that I can read it, I hate small print. > > Anyways, iTerm does a miserable job on the delete key remapping. > GLterm doesn't seem to have tabbing for terminals at all, and has a > miserable assortment of fonts. It took me a while, but I did at least > get it to use control-h for the delete key. Apple's own offering, > Terminal, doesn't seem to support tabbing at all. > > If I could get help with either aterm or the odd problem with > gnome-terminal (that's really the only reason I even installed gnome on > the box, although pygtk is also a pretty fair reason, I admit). > > Thanks for any help. > > There's always konsole, but having to install kdebase3 is kind of overkill. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
