Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-30 Thread csj
On 30 Jun 2002 15:53:50 -0500 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having used the new terminal for two days now, and having just upgraded > to Gnome 2 last night, I can now actually say that I love the new > terminal. AFTER I got the configuration out of the way (which had to be > don

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 15:35, James D Strandboge wrote: > > blurred the background image. All in all, it was much, much uglier > than the > > earlier versions of gnome-terminal. > > > I guess you are using the full gnome2? If not, you should, and use > gnome-control-center to set the fonts. The

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-30 Thread James D Strandboge
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 12:57, Steve Juranich wrote: > Last night, while I was doing my nightly 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I caught the > new gnome-terminal package (2.0). I can't help but saying that I think it > really stinks. :< > Too bad-- I love the tabbed terminals > It grabbed this huge 100d

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 17:39, Rick Macdonald wrote: > I believe the release notes for Gnome-2 say that you have to exit to get > changes to take effect, and that this will be fixed for the next (minor) > release. Have a look at the release notes. They say the purposely removed > many configuration

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
Alex Malinovich said: > On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 14:11, Alan Shutko wrote: >> Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Is there a config file for this terminal anywhere that I can edit by >> > hand so I can at least get a working font set up? >> >> ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Def

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Alan Shutko
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you having any luck getting any changes in there to actually stick? It's worked so far. I closed all terminals, edited the file in emacs, and started a new terminal. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Sky divers NEVER

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 14:11, Alan Shutko wrote: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a config file for this terminal anywhere that I can edit by > > hand so I can at least get a working font set up? > > ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/%gconf.xml > > I'm sure

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Alan Shutko
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a config file for this terminal anywhere that I can edit by > hand so I can at least get a working font set up? ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/%gconf.xml I'm sure there's some way to get gconftool to do it, but I couldn't figu

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Alan Shutko
Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Last night, while I was doing my nightly 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I > caught the new gnome-terminal package (2.0). I can't help but > saying that I think it really stinks. :< I have to admit, it's very rude the way it completely ignores your setup from

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 11:57, Steve Juranich wrote: > It grabbed this huge 100dpi font for the toolbar. There weren't nearly as > many > configuration options as in the older version. None of the fonts that I was > able to choose from looked "right". The 'translucent background' option also >

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 09:57:18AM -0700, Steve Juranich wrote: | Last night, while I was doing my nightly 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I | caught the new gnome-terminal package (2.0). Oh, it's availble? Cool! I'm hoping it fixes the unicode display problems (rather, lack thereof) in 1.4. | I can't

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I usually stick to IceWM and xterm. In my book, they have yet to improve on xterm. All the other terminals don't even handle logging, to my knowledge. With xterm, I can use my .Xdefaults file on every *nix in existence. Both KDE and Gnome have their own systems instead of respecting X resource

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Steve Juranich quotation: > Last night, while I was doing my nightly 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I caught the > new gnome-terminal package (2.0). I can't help but saying that I think it > really stinks. :< I got the new gnome-terminal yesterday too, but I haven't actually run it yet. Thank