Summary: | Vertically split screen for very long listings (watch/top/tail/less/...) | ||
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Product: | [Applications] konsole | Reporter: | Jakob Østergaard <joe> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Konsole Developer <konsole-devel> |
Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | strobert |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Gentoo Packages | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Jakob Østergaard
2004-11-03 17:03:02 UTC
Not sure if your display supports it, but if so have you tried rotating it? aka going 1200x1600. something I have looked into doing (a few colleagues do it under windows) but it basically isn't supported by XFree/KDE for a multihead config. But it should work for a single head. What you want is a text viewer; nothing to do with konsole. I would suggest trying to find a program to run in konsole that does what you want. Perhaps a GUI program that you can have split views, folds, etc... Well, yes and no. A program such as 'less' does allow for some flexibility when viewing text output from other programs (by means of pipes). I could imagine an extended less program which (using curses) could do some of what I ask. I see this pretty much like the scrolling feature of Konsole. You can argue that there is *no* need for a scroll bar in Konsole, because less already allows you to scroll. Just add less to your pipes and you're done. The above is only partially true, of course - less will not, for example, allow me to keep visible a long history of commands and outputs, like the Konsole scroll bar does. My 'column view' feature is an extension of the scroll feature - it will not only allow me to access a large number of lines (be they output or written input), it will allow me to keep it all immediately visible. It is interesting that you mention "a text viewer" where I can have split views, folds, etc. Well, as I see it, Konsole is exactly a text viewer GUI program that displays text from the commands I run, and my request was, precisely, for such a feature :) So, unless we're misunderstanding each other, I think we agree perfectly on what it is I want. Maybe we do not agree whether the feature belongs in Konsole or not ;) (?) I guess I should learn the Konsole code, write it myself and submit it - I just hoped someone would feel it was a good enough idea to actually want to beat me to it ;) Thanks for your feedback! For Steven's comment: A 22" CRT weighs a lot more than what I can comfortably rotate on my desk, when I need 1200x1600 resolution - I think I understand your idea, but I also think that there are too many practical problems in it (which, I would argue, could be comfortably solved with this little column-view feature) :) sorry, I made a bad assumption, I have only run 1600x1200 on a 19" LCD which rotates a little easier :) (my CRT's didn't ever do 1600x1200 well, but haven't had a 22" one). |