[clug-talk] Weekly Poll

[Gustin Johnson]

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In screen:
ctrl-a [esc] then you can page up and down, you can also use the arrow
keys to go line by line.

I don't use any of the pretty wobbly effects, but I do enjoy working in
KDE.  KDE is nice and peppy on my laptop, and I would like it to stay
that way.  For me KDE is more convenient than any other desktop GUI I
have used.

If you are a screen fan, there is a desktop that was inspired by it.  It
is called ratpoison.

Kevin Anderson wrote:
> Clearly, it's time for an upgrade.  Last time I looked any anything
> desktopish was years ago when I got composit running under Gentoo. 
> Didn't care then, still don't really.  (SSH is SSH).  But it's clearly
> time to upgrade, if for no other reason tan to have those watching over
> my shoulder say "what IS that".  I like when that happens...
>  
> Funny thing is, I'd be vastly more impressed if I could scroll back up
> in konsole during a screen session.  It's ironic that I can have all the
> useless eye candy I want, but useful things like scrolling still aren't
> really complete.  I know that would be complicated; particularly if a
> screen session opens another screen session, but still, it's far more
> useful than the cube & stuff, and I can't imagine it being any more
> difficult.
>  
> Maybe I'm just too old.  I like the CLI.
>  
> Kev.
> 
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>    *From:* Mitchell Brown [mailto:mitchell at untitled1.ca]
> *Sent:* Monday, June 11, 2007 10:26 AM
> *To:* CLUG General
> *Subject:* Re: [clug-talk] Weekly Poll
> 
> The great thing is - with Ubuntu Feisty, it's included - out of the box.
> 
> On 6/11/07, *Kevin Anderson* < kanderson at digital-adrenaline.com
> <mailto:kanderson at digital-adrenaline.com>> wrote:
> 
>     That's a freakin cool video.
>     Kev.
> 
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>           *From:* Mitchell Brown [mailto:mitchell at untitled1.ca
>     <mailto:mitchell at untitled1.ca>]
>     *Sent:* Monday, June 11, 2007 9:09 AM
>     *To:* CLUG General
> 
>     *Subject:* Re: [clug-talk] Weekly Poll
> 
>     Compiz and Beryl basically are Eye Candy 101. They make your windows
>     have a 3d appearance, a ripple effect, etc. It is also responsible
>     for the "cube effect" you might have seen before in videos such as
>     this:
> 
>     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ
> 
>     On 6/11/07, *Jon* < me at jonwatson.ca <mailto:me at jonwatson.ca>> wrote:
> 
>         Thanks.
> 
>         So xgl and aixgl are composition managers? And what are compiz
>         and beryl, then, just the window managers?
> 
>         Always curious about the relationship.
> 
>         J
>         ---
>         Sent from the road...
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Jesse Kline <jesse at kline.ca <mailto:jesse at kline.ca>>
>         Date: Sunday, Jun 10, 2007 6:01 pm
>         Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Weekly Poll
>         To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca
>         <mailto:clug-talk at clug.ca>>Reply-To: CLUG General
>         <clug-talk at clug.ca <mailto:clug-talk at clug.ca>>
> 
>         On Sun, 2007-10-06 at 17:48 -0600, Jon wrote:
>         Is it Beryl? I'm not sure but someone told me it was Xgl.
> 
>         Admittedly, I'm not really up on the diff between Xgl, aixgl,
>         and Beryl other than Bery is a Compiz fork.
> 
>         Beryl will work with xgl or aiglx as the composition manager.
>         Feisty actually comes with Compiz out of the box, but includes
>         Beryl in one of the repositories.
> 
>         Jesse
> 
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