VanLUG Email Archive
Ted Powell (ted@eslvcr.fireplug.net)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:25:56 -0800
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 03:05:40PM -0800, Brian Bray wrote:
> Greg Smolyn wrote:
> > ...
> > If you don't believe me, just open a dozen or so terminals and try
> > navigating between them using only the keyboard. :)
>
> So, there are some differences between the terminal focused style and
> the expert GUI style.
>
> Maybe you would be happier if I had called it the keyboard focussed
> style instead of the expert GUI style. Regardless of the names, these
> are two different legitimate ways to operate a computer and Linux
> supports only one of them.
Alt-<Fn> works quite nicely for up to 12 terminals. For my first few
months at MPR Teltech I operated this way, on a SCO console, using four
keys for each of the three machines I was working on, with four
foreground colours and three background colours. No problem.
-- ted@psg.com http://psg.com/~ted/ (Ted Powell) The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. --Dijkstra
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