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A look at Xfce 4.2

A look at Xfce 4.2

Posted Dec 10, 2004 2:28 UTC (Fri) by mandrews (guest, #26584)
In reply to: A look at Xfce 4.2 by sfink
Parent article: A look at Xfce 4.2

I would be happy with xterm if it weren't broken. No terminal emulator I have found so far can deal correctly with multi-line strings. I'm not talking about cutting & pasting -- I recognize the difficulties of that. I'm just talking about typing in a line with more characters than the width of your terminal, then doing some combination of backspacing past a line wrap, retyping text forward past a line end, and recalling commands from history.

Has CDE beem released under a free license yet? If so, I think the dtterm handles all this stuff properly including the cut-and-paste. I had the same frustrations until our work systems were upgraded to CDE from HP-VUE (A few years ago, and yes that is an upgrade).


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