[u-u] Terminal Emulation

Bill Duncan, 416-697-9315 bduncan at beachnet.org
Mon May 9 20:38:26 EDT 2011


"Pin the shell to a task bar" !?!?

Now you *ARE* scaring me..

Dave, you've been away from civilization too long.  You need to get
back to your roots..



[David Gilbert said:]
> 
> On 5/9/2011 8:10 PM, Bill Duncan, 416-697-9315 wrote:
> > Dave's into S&M..
> >
> > You can even start cygwin with
> >
> >    xterm  [your fav options]  &
> >
> > You'd almost think you were home..
> >
> > Dave has to drill down on those @#$%^& menus and set the options
> > and click some more to start another one..
> 
> Options are overrated.  They rarely change.  Often as not, I need to
> check a man page if I'm changing options anyways.
> 
> As far as cygwin goes, it has many drawbacks in the windows
> environment.  As an example, you can't pin the shell to the task bar. 
> The "cost" of creating processes also makes most shell scripting
> unbearably slow.
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