On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 01:00 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
The latest Debian/Unstable has a newer buggier version of Konsole and I'm looking for a new Xterm type program. An ideal Konsole replacement would allow configuration of the field split characters for double-click copy/paste and have a slider at the side for scrolling back (xterm allows the mouse wheel but doesn't have a slider).
It would also allow ^+ and ^- to be used for changing font size (as all web browsers seem to do).
I'm now in the process of switching from Kmail to Claws. Claws isn't nearly as polished as Kmail (EG it doesn't allow arrow keys to scroll through the list of messages) and isn't as threaded but seems more solid.
What's a good desktop replacement for KDE? I want something that looks like OS/2 2.0+, is reasonably fast (not the slow login of modern KDE), and which has widgets for times in multiple time zones and clipboard management.
What don't you like about gnome? It has a widget for multiple time zones; it does take a while to boot up but I configure auto-login so I just turn the machine on then do some quick chore while the machine is booting up. There is gnome terminal (/usr/bin/gnome-terminal) which is what I use; you can't adjust the font size with ^+ but it is quite simple to create a profile to set the font to a comfortable size. I also set the color scheme to black on gray which is my preference; it has double-click copy/paste, a slider/mouse-wheel and multiple tabs.