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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

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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