cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (11/09/89)
In article <23791@cup.portal.com>, compata@cup.portal.com (David H Close) writes: > IMHO, its better! I have always failed to see any advantage in windows > smaller than my programs expect. In general, the larger the window, the > better. But "real" windowing systems expect me to get by with several > tiny windows. To me, any portion of the screen which my program can't use, I don't know what "real" windowing systems you have used, but under my windowing system I have three main windows which are non-overlapped and are of the following sizes: 96 cols/72 rows, 80/32, and 80/44. Each of these are using a 9x15 font which is very readable on my 19" monitor. I even have room left over for my mailer flag, system load average, clock, and icons of other windows that I use less frequently. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
ORCUTT@cc.utah.edu (11/10/89)
I used a SUN and an HP workstation, and I think that multiple windows on the screen are wonderful. However, on my 640 x 480 VGA, the multiscreen idea seems to be the best, as the screen is too small for lots of windows. If I had a REAL display, though, I would use X instead of multiscreens...
edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) (11/14/89)
In article <300002@hpspcoi.HP.COM> darko@hpspcoi.HP.COM (David Arko) writes: > >There is also multiscreens for serial terminals. To use this you >have to have your term type entry in the file /etc/mscreencap >and then you invoke the capability with the command 'mscreen -n' >where 'n' is the number if multiscreens desired. Then you filp >back and forth between screens by Shift+F1, Shift+Fx... Depending >on your terminals capablities this will either clear the screen >between switches or use the terminals memory to store each screen. >This is a very vague discription and I will refer you to 'man mscreen'. > >This is sort of a poor man's windowing system. And for those even poorer who don't have a serial terminal with screen memory, we have "shl". Shell layers predates SCO's mscreen implementation by a couple of rev's (it first appeared in 2.2.1 or 2.2.3, it was a while ago). mscreen requires a terminal capable of remembering the contents of the ptty's in order to do it's magic. shl works quite well without this ability. While it's not quite as pretty, I remember being very grateful when it first was implimented. I'll not try to repeat the man page here, but leave that as an exercise for those interested. >--David Arko >darko@hpspcio.hp.com Ed. A. Hew Authorized Technical Trainer Xeni/Con Corporation work: edhew@xenicon.uucp -or- ..!{uunet!}utai!lsuc!xenicon!edhew ->home: edhew@xenitec.on.ca -or- ..!{uunet!}watmath!xenitec!edhew # Justice is only relative to what you can afford to prove in court.