Comments | vfork: xterm+screen versus gnome-terminal or konsole

vfork

xterm+screen versus gnome-terminal or konsole

Dec 01, 2004 15:56

Both gnome-terminal and konsole are pretty nice and very powerfull applications. They support a few sessions inside one window and anti-aliased fonts. And xterm is one of the oldest and ugliest X11 application. This is a citation from Xterm README file:

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When seriously needing console-ation... smitty1e December 11 2004, 09:53:03 UTC

...why bother booting X?
As I move into my new dual-boot laptop, I think I'll just install an X-less distro, and leave that GUI junk across the DMZ (de-militarized zone, a FAT32 where I keep the data) in Redmondland.
After all, when did emacs last care whether the UI was character or graphical?

Re: When seriously needing console-ation... vfork December 12 2004, 13:01:17 UTC

First of all, you are right. The console is enought for a lot of development. emacs works fine in shell mode as well as in GUD-mode. BTW screen was primary developed for the console mode.

But I have a few reasons to boot X:
1. Sometimes (it isn't big part of my job, however) I need to develop for X (Tcl/Tk, Qt)
2. DDD is pretty convinient as GDB front end.
3. Web browsing with mozilla/firebird/konquerror is much more enjoying then the Lynx
4. Same for mail. I use mozilla/thunderbird, althought I know about mutt.
5. There are a lot of small "eye-candy" applications (ex: ktop, battery-applet, etc.). Of course, these application aren't *must*. But, you know, just convinient.
6. A few serious applications work with X. ethereal is almost must for me (tcpdump is much less convinient).
7. Sometimes my partners (collegues, clients, whatever) send me MS-word or powerpoint documents. Thanks to openoffice, I don't need to reboot computer everytime I wish to see these documents :-)