2 Responses for "CLI Magic: An extreme term makeover"

1. Jonathan Hollin (DarkBlue)

   November 2nd, 2004 at 3:19 pm

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   MS Windows users can do pretty much the same thing with the DOS shell using eConsole.

2. Diogo

   November 2nd, 2004 at 4:26 pm

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   So this is basically a guide on how to set aterm compile time options, and a quick look at the manpage would fill you in on the rest. Yes, aterm is probably the best terminal emulator around, but reading this article you get the feeling it doesn’t have any advantage over gnome-terminal (seeing as though the writer only focuses on visual bells and whistles).

   Why not get really interesting and show how to set fonts, something that’s not immediately apparent, or the fact that there’s a patch to make aterm borderless independent of the window manager being used, and it doesn’t show up on the manpage.

   Gentoo already has this patch, just start aterm with -borderLess (note the capital ‘L’). Everyone else can just take a look at the ebuild, pull it and compile it themselves. Hmmmm eye candy ^_^