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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

How large is this program?  I tried something much simpler called splitvt 
which is 1995 and came in one of the SW7.1 packages precompiled.  You can 
set up 2 or more screens split horizontally (maybe also vertically) and 
copy between them, on a single virtual console, via keyboard.

At 80x25 I would not want to be running many 'windows' at one time but my 
graphics cards mostly support 132 columns by 50 or so rows.  Tseng, 
Trident and S3 do for sure.

This has no mouse support and no dragging and I suspect you can't resize a 
window after it is open, but it is quite small and probably already 
available.  Keyboard command (two-stroke) to switch between windows.

I reported on it a few months ago and a search through the archives should 
find it.

I would also be very interested to try out Twin if you compile it, but is 
libc.so.6 the BL2 library not BL3?

> As a sort of frill, I'd like to add a bit about a program I've mentioned
> in the past as perhaps being suitable for BL and which I've been using
> lately.  Unfortunately, owing to certain constraints, I am not using it on
> a BL system.  But I want to report on it nonetheless, since BL seems like
> the right "market" for it.  The program is called "Twin."  It is a console
> program that allows creation of virtual terminals within a single console.
> It's billed as a sort of xwindows for the console.  So, instead of having
> numerous tty's open and switching between them with ctrl-alt-Fx keys, all
> terminals and their console programs can be open in a single console.
> Right now, for example, I have Pine, elinks, two instances of mc (1 root,
> 1 user), lynx and a couple of terminals open in Twin.  A slight
How many rows and columns are you using for 7 windows?

> modification to the config file has allowed me to map the alt-tab sequence
> to cycle between terminals.  So I can sit here and alt-tab - very quickly
> - between all my open console programs.  Terminals can be resized and
> dragged around the screen as well: gpm needs to be installed and
> configured if one wants mouse functionality, I should mention.  With gpm,
> one can copy and paste text between terminals as well (maybe there's a way
> to do this without a mouse as well - haven't looked into that).  I'm very
> happy with Twin and its performance.  Perhaps other BL users would want to
> look into it?  So far as I know, it comes only as source and so would need
> to be compiled for BL.  It's very light on dependencies. "ldd twin" gives
> the following output:
>
> libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40020000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
>
> Don't know if those exclude it as a BL candidate or not.  At the risk of
> making further vain promises or idle threats, if I get some time, I may
> try compiling it for BL.  If I don't, and if others look at it and find it
> interesting as well, perhaps they'd like to try compiling it?  The link
> for the mainpage, with some screenshots, is here:
> http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/
>
> James
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