On Mar 23, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Jason McIntosh wrote:
Derick:
eTerm requires X11 to run. As such, you can get it to compile and
run, but then it'll run under the X11 environment while the iTerm
application does NOT require X to be running. eterm would be a
replacement for the xterm application in X11. SO, it's possible
(probably) that eterm will work, but the question is why would you
want to use it to replace Terminal?
Jason
One answer to this question is that I have X11 already and thanks to
your suggestions (yourself and others responding to the query I posted
on this list) I modified bashrc found in /etc which is acting in place
of .bashrc (at least this is so in OS X v. 10.3.8).
Although Terminal is still one color now at least the links are
explicit, as are directories, files, read/write access details. In
short, Terminal looks more like other Unix systems which is just fine.
So why eterm? Well, I'm used to it's themes and got to appreciate it
greatly when I was using Enlightenment alot.
It's advantage is that I can choose each window to have a different
background indicating (to me) that I'm doing something uniquely
different in each one such that just by visual cues I can decide which
one I want to look at right now. This doesn't appear yet to be the
case with iterm. Ok...it can support vim in displaying various color
codes etc., but eterm can do that AND provide me with the quick visual
cues I mentioned.
If I go ahead with this and am successful with getting eterm to run
I'll post what I found out here. I won't remove Terminal, I just won't
access it on the dock, if I can get eterm going. eterm supports
FreeBSD so we'll see how much BSD, OS X really is. Interesting....No?
Thanks again...
Will keep you posted....
Derick.
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