OT: You OS/X Users...question for ya...

[Brian K. White]

>>I prefer one PuTTY session hooked to a linux system running screen.
>>Wireless dies temporarily, I'm safe and can recover.  The lack of a
>>gazillion individual windows for emulators is for my terminal emulator
>>experience what tabbed browsing is for my browser experience.
>
> One session doesn't do me much good when I'm connecting to a
> dozen or more systems.  Putty doesn't do me much good as I don't
> have any Windows systems and ssh with xterms does everything I
> need quite nicely.  My normal e-mail reader is mutt in xterms.

How do you use the F4 F10 etc... keys on an apple laptop?
Last time I tried to set a client up with a terminal emulator (Ericomm?) to 
access their filepro app, I could not free up all of the F keys for the 
terminal emulator app (or any app, including the stock terminal.app). The OS 
retained control of a few keys for changing backlight brightness and sound 
volume and such, even after I found a dialog somewhere (in the os or window 
manager) that freed up most keys by changing an option.

I'm guessing eventually I could have found some background process that does 
nothing but monitor those keys and take the configured actions, and disabled 
that process, but if that was the only way then I wouldn't want to do that 
to the users laptop or try to pester them with some funky directions to 
disable/enable it back & forth all the time, or try to script it into a 
wrapper around the emulator either.

I think Apple desktops do not have the same difficulty either, just laptops.
I've tried a few other times before too, like playing with friends titanium 
books all weekend and playing with the stock terminal.app and ported xterm & 
rxvt, and other commercial/shareware emulators. I found one one time that 
had a gimmik where it ran faster than others by virtue of drawing the text 
by using the 3d hardware in the video card to draw vectors, instead of 
rendering fonts the normal way. So far I've never been able to use all of 
the F keys on a laptop.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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