[clug-talk] Weekly Poll

Mon Jun 11 15:01:08 PDT 2007

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Another place to search the mailing list:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/gnu-screen/

Gustin Johnson wrote:
> Off the top of my head, I don't know.  What I do know is that screen is
> scary with the number of options and features that it has.  The keyboard
> sequence I listed below initiates "copy mode".  I would be surprised if
> it could not be made to do what you want it to.
> 
> man screen, http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users are probably
> two places to start first.  A google of gnu screen should get a lot of hits.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kevin Anderson wrote:
>> How do I select something though.  Say I have a 50 page text file that 
>> I'd like to cat, copy and paste.  I can't do that even with this., 
>> though this is clearly better than what I do now...  
> 
>> Thanks
>> Kev.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gustin Johnson [mailto:gustin at echostar.ca] 
>> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 12:39 PM
>> To: CLUG General
>> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Weekly Poll
> 
>> 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.
> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>    *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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