On 2 June 2010 21:39, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 02.06.2010 15:30, schrieb Dave Korn: >> We already get plenty of questions about the difference between a >> console >> and a terminal. Don't think it'll be any different really. Let's call >> the >> shortcuts "Cygwin Console" and "Cygwin GUI Terminal", and then people will >> think it's obvious why there's two of them. > > Apart from its configuration menu, mintty isn't really more of "GUI" than > the console; also I don't think that would answer those questions.
Fair point. (And of course the console has an options dialog too.) > (There > used to be a project to add graphics to an xterm clone - maybe another > challenge for Andy...?) You mean the Tektronix stuff? No, thanks. The three people who do still need that are all happy with xterm. ;) (Graphical applications should of course be using X. Say what you like about the X protocol, but at least it doesn't suffer from terminal escape sequences.) Andy
