Re: Two video cards ... separate text and graphical usage

On 28 Jan 2008 01:45:14 GMT Dances With Crows <danceswithcrows@xxxxxxx> wrote:

| If your programs are writing lots of junk to stdout, why not redirect
| that stdout to a file? Also, the Athena widgets used in xterm are
| really, really lightweight, and scrolling/bitblitting should have been
| heavily optimized within the X module itself. From what I can tell, the
| vast amount of stdout produced by "emerge world" delivered through the
| much heavier konsole doesn't cause the CPU or graphics card much pain.
| I'm not exactly running a state-of-the-art box either (Athlon XP 3500,
| 1G, GeForce 7100 GS.)

I do want to see the output. I don't have to be able to read every line
to be able to get an idea what it does.

Actually, what I often do is run programs under screen and disconnect.


|> There are also other details like when doing double and triple
|> clicking to highlight words or lines, this doesn't work as desired.
|> The list of characters that are considered to end a word and not
|> spread the highlight need to be changed.
|
| "man xterm" and grep for "character classes" for how to change that
| behavior in xterm. That's in Settings->Configure konsole->General in
| konsole.

I'd prefer a config file so I can keep the setting.


|> I hope you get a clearer understanding of what I am doing, now.
|
| A bit, but I've never had the problems you're having. HTH anyway,

One problem I have with X is that when I move the cursor over some text,
and try to highlight some text, it usually misses the first character even
though I clearly am on that character. I have to move the cursor to in
front of the character to be able to highlight it. That I find to be very
awkward. The cursor is a shape of a narrow and tall letter "I". I want a
cursor that is a block that fully covers a character and is fully aligned
with it (e.g. moves in steps of character cells). I would only need this
kind of cursor on the terminal program windows.

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