Re: A Proposal For The Addition Of Color-Reactiveness To The GNOME Desktop

[Rob Browning <rlb cs utexas edu>]

Stephanos Piperoglou <sp249@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> My Xterm (out of XFree86) has a MiniIcon view which I find very useful. It
> uses the tiny font to actually display on the icon whatever is going on.
> Very useful for a compile. You do the make and iconify, and when the stuff
> stops moving (you can usually tell if there's a shell prompt at the bottom
> too) you know the compile is over.

That's almost exactly what I was talking about.  I had no idea it was
already implemented.  (It looks like rxvt won't do it, though.)  I'll
play around and see what I think...

Thanks

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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