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  • Subject: Re: [BL] screen from Slack12 on BL 3.5
  • Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:35:58 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Sindi wrote:

Have you looked at splitvt? It lets you make two (or more?) virtual terminals out of one, and copy between them using the keyboard (probably also the mouse). I have not tried it in an rxvt.

Haven't looked at splitvt but I'm aware of it through reading some of your posts on this list. The same (splitting) can be done with screen, i.e., you can have the terminal or console divided into 2, 4 (or more) parts with different programs running in each. Copying and pasting will definitely work in an xterm using screen, but you'd probably need gpm for copying and pasting at the console.

When at sdf, instead of using screen, I type Ctrl-z to background a

Don't you have to have some special membership level to be able to use screen at sdf?

What do you use more than 10 terminals for?

chat client in one, 2-5 rxvt's running things like mc, top, ssh, or just cli stuff, and 3-5 running browser instances. I've gotten really attached to elinks since it is capable of tabbed browsing. If I had elinks on BL3 I wouldn't need as many simultaneous rxvt's, that's for sure.

Instead of xpdf, try using the SW4.0 gs in x to view a file. -sDEVICE=x11 (or it may be the default, or you can put it as the default in /etc/profile). The gs's I compiled don't run under X.
There is a ghostview front end that I have only tried in Windows.

This should obviate your fonts problem and eliminate the need for xpdf as well. (Just use pdftopbm on pdf 1.5 formats, with xpdfrc pointing to gs/Abiword fonts).

Great idea. I'll have to look into this. xpdf displays most English language documents I've tried it with now that I've finally broken down and installed those xfonts. But Greek or Hebrew text in pdf's get reduced to nonsense characters. At the same time, I managed to print out a pdf using your gs package that had not only Greek and Hebrew characters, but even some Syriac text in it. If I could get gs to display pdf's for me, it seems like the font problem would definitely be solved, as you've said.

Thanks for the pointers.

James




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