On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:39:52PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > well to an extent this is an extension of my last > thread. does anyone know of any metapackages that > contain all the cli tools in one place, if not then i > am off to RTM at http://people.debian.org/ on creating > metapackages and try to work something out, though it > is not something that i am strong at. anyone wishing > to help or comment please feel free to contact me on > or off of the list. > I don't know if one exists, but in aptitude's "graphical" interface there is a complete listing of meta-packages. > my other intrest would be to create a ncurses based > overlay for terminal that would allow multiple screens > without logging into more than one tty, though i am > not sure if one exists or not (i am also going to look > at twin) Why not use X, a tiling WM like wmii, or xmonad and Xinerama? These give a keyboard oriented, terminal like environment using lots of xterms. Genuinely curious here as to why you would jump through a bunch of hoops when something already exists... or why this option doesn't meet your needs. A
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