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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Twin: was [BL] BL3 applications
  • Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:31:08 +1000

Hi Folks,

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:11:55 -0500 (CDT)
James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net> wrote:


> 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
> 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/

Well, it looks interesting, so I downloaded the source.
It configured OK, but gave an error on "make". So no executable.
Of course, I don't know what I am doing, so maybe someone else can
get it to compile properly for BL2.

Regards,
Ron

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Ron Clarke
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