Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal
--- Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
> So FVWM is good, by the sound of it?
Very:
http://www.fvwm.org
has lots of information, screenshots, etc.
> That's exactly what I would like to do. Are you implying that, if I run
> fvwm, I can run multiple virtual desktops (which the gnome pager will
> support) and commands like this will work:
I'm not just implying, I'm telling you. :) Yes, and fvwm has its own
pager: 'FvwmPager'.
> xterm -xrm '*Desk: 2'
>
> ?
That's one way of doing it. Normally though you'd assign titles to your
xterms such that in Fvwm:
Style "MyXterm" StartsOnDesk 1
> My whole point is, I want (need) to be able to set up multiple desktops
> with the xterms - not just a single or "visible" desktop.
Fvwm is the way forward then. :)
> A single desktop is simply not enough.
>
> And whatever the case, in my current setup, I can't get an xterm to
> start on anything but my current virtual desktop.
Have I mentioned Fvwm can do this? :)
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