Monthly Archives: September 2010

emacs -nw and xterm (Getting xterm to recognize the ALT key)

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Ramola's Recovery

The terminal emulators I’ve used so far are konsole, gnome-terminal and xterm. Since my RHEL box at work is KDE-based and my ubuntu machine at home is gnome based, konsole and gnome-terminal have received heavy usage. The other day I decided to (re)try out xterm. I like xterm and have used it before, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember why I switched back.

Once I started some real work, of course, it all came back to me. Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Ramola's Recovery

~ $ echo hello world hello world ~ $ After switching among multiple distros (at school, work and home), I got tired of repeatedly trying to solve the same desktop customization issues just because I couldn’t remember how I did … Continue reading →

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