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mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 18 2007,22:59

I just started playing with yeahconsole (http://phrat.de/yeahtools.html), which provides a quake-like terminal that hides and reappears with a key toggle...kinda groovy, particularly when using a tiling window manager.

Unfortunately it doesn't work with aterm since the terminal must be embeddable (xterm and urxvt are the only ones it currently supports).

So I was wondering if anyone has already created a xterm or (preferably) urxvt (aka rxvt-unicode) uci/unc extension that I overlooked when searching the repository?
If not, I guess I'll do it myself =o)

After that (and after icewm/lighttpd updates and htop), yeahconsole will hopefully be available in myDSL.

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Posted: Aug. 19 2007,06:34

That app sounds like a cool idea to try out

I think DSL 1.x and older used rxvt, if you just want to test out this first.

mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 19 2007,12:29

I'm not sure it would be worth the trouble of digging out an old disk. I assume that rxvt is not capable of being embedded. Aterm is based on rxvt and is not...would they actually *remove* a feature like that?

In any case, if urxvt doesn't exist in myDSL I suspect it's time it did =o)

I have a feeling I might lose interest in yeahconsole pretty quickly, though. It's only been a day and already I'm wondering if it has any real benefit for me apart from one-key toggle and looking cool. And so far I still prefer aterm over urxvt. I think I'll have to look into its cpu/ram usage.

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mikshaw

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Posted: Sep. 05 2007,13:01

It seems that yeahconsole also requires XFree86, or at least that's the impression I'm getting. It starts with no trouble and no errors, but does not display =op

I think I'm going to pass on this, at least until I have the desire to install XFree

Screwing around with IceWM now. I forgot how much of a pain it was to build for DSL =o)

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