On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 14:59:50 +0100 (BST) Keith Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well under Fedora and KDE I have 18 desktops running. I can > then use the Konsole program (an X terminal program for > KDE) to open 3 or more tabs, each with a different version > of mc running.
Yes, I use KDE 3? and Konsole [the root one] and the bottom RHS icon 'initiates' more VT's. So from the row if 8 icons I can see I'm in the 5th VT. But to see it's contents, I need to 'open' it; which causes me to lose concentration. Like having a book with 8 blue-threads for book marks. At least the 'sequence of threads' can give a clues, because a book is linear. > Double clicking on the Konsole tab allows me > to rename that tab to something helpfull so I don't get > lost. So where/what is this Konsole tab's location/appearance ? Jes?s Guerrero wrote:- > For me, the natural choice if you want to be with the hands over your > keyboard > is gnu screen. You can open as many screen windows as you want, and > copy/paste > things between them. There are many ways to copy the selection buffer > to whichever > X buffer you need (for example, binding the thing to xclip or xsel) > You can define a hardstatus line to see where you are, as well. > There's a lot > more about screen that can't be sumed up on a simple mail. For more > info, > subscribe to the relevant mailing list and ask there: > [43]http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... <---------- !! Yes I tried screen previously. It's a nightmare for the same reason the mc is a dream: no menu or cues !! And re. mans that list the zillion options alphabetically: that's like learning a new language by reading the dictionary, starting from the first page ?! And now that I've persevered with this can-of-worms, I've managed to hang two VTs - even after kill <screen'sPID>. What we want [like my proper OS: ETHZ-Oberon] is to 1. navigate by mc to the file, 2. view/edit the file by mc, 3. AFTER opening the editor, only then decide to see, simulteously 3 views of the file, so that we can eg. in a 'lynx -dump' file: A. read the hot-link's description, B. 77 lines down, find [by (with Oberon) merely 'wipe' & hit-search] the correspondingly numbered hot-link's URL; C.which we copyNpaste to the top of the file, for later use. Ie. we only want to commit to screen after we've entered mc's edit/view. So only ETH-Oberon can do these useful HCI-centered tasks ? Thanks, == Chris Glur. _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
