Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:34:17
Message-Id: 200909301234.13063.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mittwoch 30 September 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:45:34 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > > > split screen mode -- yes, mb useful, but similar to tabs
4 > >
5 > > no.
6 >
7 > I can't see the point of this feature. If it were two terminals side by
8 > side, so ypou could run a command in one while tailing a log file in
9 > the other, it would be extremely handy, especially with SSH, but it just
10 > shows the same output twice.
11 >
12 > Or am I doing something stupid?
13 >
14
15 no and yes. The two show the same output. But if you have several tabs and you
16 let something big running in one of them you can split it, switch to another
17 tab and watch whatever goes on. You can also do side-by-side stuff that way.
18
19 Could be done better, but still usefull and more than just tabs.