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Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?



On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:01:55 +0300
Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:24:50 +0300
> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:56:20 +0200
> > Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi All

[...]

> > 
> 
> Just ran into mrxvt and multi-aterm. They are both variation on aterm look
> rather similar (multi-aterm has a nicer scroll bar and color on the icon) and
> both have tabs.
> 
> unfortunately neither can handle hebrew input (they can both show it with the
> right font).
> 

Fix that, input works when the right locale is set.

> > I use rxvt-unicode-lite which can also handle unicode (and different fonts for
> > different character sets). It doesn't handle tabs though. I run screen inside
> > rxvt to handle multiple sessions (behaves like text tabs, but can also handle
> > other text based programs such as vim and emacs. It can also disconect/reconect
> > or connect multiple times to the same session, also remotely from ssh etc).
> > 
> > Another option is to use a tabs enables window manager so that you can group
> > several windows together, without any relation to what they are. Thats what I
> > did before I moved to screen, but the fvwm version requires perl, which takes
> > about 15 Megs (which is shared if you also tend to use other perl programs). I
> > know that there are window managers that support tabs natively, but I'm not
> > sure which ones.
> > 
> > > A file manager, that isnt very resource hungry, but can connect to SMB
> > > shares, and has a fairly useful interface.
> > > 
> > 
> > The console ;-), but seriously. smb is usually handled by the system and not
> > the file manager. You can use an automounter such as autofs to
> > automatically mount/unmount smb shares, There are some daemons that should
> > allow automatically showing removable storage, but I never used them (I also
> > use autofs for that). There is rox-filer and dfm which are light desktop
> > solution similar to what kde and gnome do. ytree which is text based, similar
> > to the dos xtree. I used a few others but never caught on to anything so I
> > don't remember, sorry.
> > 
> > > Thanks again
> > > 
> > > Ben
> > > 
> > > 
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