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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