On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:52:15 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:

> This is one place where those quake-like terminals comes in handy. I
> use tilda, for KDE there's yakuake. Basically they allow you to press
> a single key and a terminal pops down from the top of the screen.

Yakuake is absolutely superb, it's the only terminal I use on this
netbook as it takes up no screen space.

> You'll probably want to run the compile in one screen session, then
> tail -f the emerge log in one of the tabs.

With the latest portage and --jobs set to >1, you don't even need that as
the output from emerge excludes all the compiler output so you can see
exactly what's going on at any time.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I will remember. Involve me, and
I will learn.

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