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Derek Martin writes: | | On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:45:40AM -0500, David Kramer wrote: | > -Cut and paste is not working in a consistent way, especially in Konsole where | > I need ot the most. | | You could use xterm instead. It's better than either konsole or | gnome-term in almost every conceivable way, IMNSHO. A perfect case of | "why try to fix what isn't broken" if you ask me. Yeah; that's what I do. But one problem I keep stumbling across: Almost every linux distribution has some terminal emulator that is pushed instead of xterm, and xterm is usually hidden so that you waste time finding it. Often it's not to be found anywhere in the menus, and it's not in the default user path. So you have to fire up the approved terminal emulator, hunt around for xterm, and type an 'xterm' command. And you need to take the time to add the directory to your path, so you won't have to go through all that again later. It's not that big a deal, but it's a waste of time at a point where you're usually under a lot of pressure to get things up and running. What would be handy is if we could get a campaign going to try to persuade the packagers of distros to always make the "generic" tools like xterm easily available via both the default menus and the default user search path. This would make life a lot easier for those of us who routinely work on a lot of different machines. -- O <:#/> John Chambers + <jc at trillian.mit.edu> / \ <jmchambers at rcn.com>
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