Got lost ..etc..

[Keith Roberts]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, chris glur wrote:

> To: mc at gnome.org
> From: chris glur <crglur at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Got lost ..etc..
>
>  On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 14:59:50 +0100 (BST)
> Keith Roberts <[42]keith at karsites.net> wrote:
>> Well under Fedora and KDE I have 18 desktops running. I can
>> then use the Konsole program (an X terminal program for
>> KDE) to open 3 or more tabs, each with a different version
>> of mc running.
>
> Yes, I use KDE 3? and Konsole [the root one] and the bottom
> RHS icon 'initiates' more VT's.  So from the row if 8 icons
> I can see I'm in the 5th VT. But to see it's contents, I need
> to 'open' it; which causes me to lose concentration.
> Like having a book with 8 blue-threads for book marks.
>
> At least the 'sequence of threads' can give a clues, because
> a book is linear.
>
>> Double clicking on the Konsole tab allows me
>> to rename that tab to something helpfull so I don't get
>> lost.
>
> So where/what is this Konsole tab's location/appearance ?

I'm using KDE 3.5.9 on Fedora Linux. With one Konsole 
terminal open, hold your mouse over the icon in the lower 
left hand corner. If you 'click and hold' you should get a 
menu showing different types of Konsoles to open. Select one 
of these, and it will open in a new tab. Or just 
double-click on the Konsole tab button bar to create another 
Konsole tab.

Double-click on the Konsole's tab name, and a pop-up box 
will appear. allowing you to rename the tab. So you can open 
a different instance of mc in each tab, and rename the 
Konsole mc lives in to something usefull.

There are alot of options that can be configured for 
Konsole. See the top menu bar. You can change the default 
font size for mc, by selecting the Font option under 
'Settings'.

If you right click on the 'K' menu icon on the KDE taskbar, 
and select Panel Menu->Configure Panel->Taskbar and enable 
the sixth checkbox down 'Show window list button' this will 
give you an icon at the RHS of your last VT. click on this 
to pop-up a menu list of all applications running in your 
VT's.

The names of your Konsole terminals running mc should be 
showing there to help you find them, assuming you have 
renamed the Konsoles to something helpfull.

HTH

Keith Roberts


> Thanks,
>
> == Chris Glur.
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