Janina Sajka wrote:
But, I still launch 24 consoles when I boot, because I actually use most
of them in very specific ways. About 6 of these 24 run screen with 9
separate terminal windows defined by ~/.screenrc. I don't see gnome
terminal replacing that anytime soon.
It has tabs, and you can script it; I don't see what wouldn't work
with your setup.
Perhaps when X evolves enough that we aren't limited to it on one
console.
X has never been limited to one console - and the consoles are not
required to be attached to the host. Fedora's pulseaudio configuration
may assume otherwise, though.
Or, perhaps also when the at stack becomes much more robust.
Right now, while the gui has been usable (for about a year), it's prone
to something--God only knows what, because when my speech dies I have no
notion of any error, etc--I simply lose the whole environment.
I'm not sure how it interacts with speech - or even audio at all, but
freenx with the NX client from www.nomachine.com is fairly robust and
lets you suspend and reconnect the display, possibly from different
clients and locations. You might need to use the commercial version of
the NX server to get audio to work remotely.
BTW: Not all my consoles are simple terminal screens. I run 9 mutt
instances in 9 screen terminals on Ctrl+Alt+F1, for instance. My inbox
is in Ctrl-A1, Fedora mail in Ctrl-a5, my standards related work in
Ctrl-a9, etc. Meanwhile, evolution and thunderbird are only marginally
usable from the screen reader perspective, and not with the same
alacrity that serves me in mutt. Heck, I can still cite specific web
pages where lynx does better than firefox3 from my a11y perspective.
Thankfully, there are plenty examples the other way around, too.
I can't comment on how well you can find things on an NX screen without
seeing them, but otherwise I find NX to be much nicer than screen in
terms of being able to keep a whole desktop of programs running on a
central well-connected host and being able to pick up the display on a
work desktop, a roaming laptop, or through a vpn from home. You also
have access to the native programs on the machine where you run the NX
client, which might be linux, windows or a mac. I normally have enough
terminal and firefox sessions running that gnome collates them to one
task bar item that pops up a list when you click it.
While I don't want text mode to go away, the NX approach fixes a lot of
the problems with native X.
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