Update from my personal hell
Mark J. Dulcey
mark at buttery.org
Thu Nov 13 10:24:55 EST 2003
John Chambers wrote:
>
> 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.
Like SuSE, you mean? xterm IS in the menus (under System/Terminal
Applications), and it's in the path. True, they DO make konsole easier
to get to (it has a toolbar icon) - after all, it is a KDE-centric
distro - but xterm isn't buried too deeply.
Heck, they even have gnome-terminal in the path and the menu - if you
have installed gnome, of course.
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