RE: Dual-Monitor help

[Nelson Green <nelsongreen84@hotmail.com>]

> Hmm... A real serial terminal like a VT100? (I actually still own a
> vt102. But it is noisy and slow. Mostly it is my footrest these
> days.)

Wow, I haven't touched a real VT100 in many years. But I used to
service them, so I remember them quite well. What I meant here is
the ttys that are loaded and spawned by getty.

> > or an XTerm (Terminal in XFCE).
>
> Technically those are terminal emulators. But in casual conversation
> we are often sloppy and imprecise when referring to things.

Oops, I did know that.

> > I have never installed a GUI on a Linux server,
>
> No X window system at all? So you only operate from the raw text
> console? Impressive. Not even the 'twin' text window manager?

Nope, I install Debian, and when I get to the tasksel portion, and I de-
select everything. I then boot it up and install just what I need. Since
the server sits there with it's attached monitor off 99% of the time I
figure a GUI is pointless. I do everything from a console, or else via
SSH in either a console on my client, or a terminal emulator.

> CDE thrash too by using fvwm but fewer people today would remember
> those these days.)

CDE. Haven't touched that in a while either, but I do have an old SPARC
in the closet with their CDE on it. I last used it in school a few years ago to
code a ftp server/client app for my network programming project. BTW,
that makes me sound much younger than I am. I took 28 years to get that
computer science degree...

>
> Not sure how useful this description is but you asked...
>
> Bob

I really appreciate the time you took to reply. I will be extremely busy
for the next few weeks, so I probably won't have any real time to play
with this. I did not know XFCE was a descendent of FWVM. I have
fiddled with that to a small degree, and it was more than enough to
do what I needed. I just did not have the time to learn it as well as I
wanted, and went with the XFCE package in the interim.

Thanks
Nelson