[desktop-discuss] Re: JDS Development Build 51 now available

[Garrett D'Amore]

One of my long, long standing complaints against gnome-term is that it
does not support anything like the -ksh mode for dtterm.  I use emacs
keybindings in my shell, and I very, very much prefer to be able to have
my Meta- chords converted to ESC- prefixes like dtterm does.  Actually,
these days I'm using xterm with XTerm*eightBitInput: false in my Xresources.

(Yes, I know this compromises my ability to use certain international
keystrokes, but I am exclusively a US ASCII user, and happily give up
the ability to enter UTF-8 at the keyboard in exchange for a more useful
binding for Meta.)

This is enough of a stopper for me, that I refuse to use either
gnome-terminal or the KDE terminal (for the same reason).

At one point I even wrote some diffs for gnome-terminal to fix this, but
they've long since stagnated and I don't even know if I still can find them.

    -- Garrett


W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>> Binary downloads for JDS Vermillion Development build
>> 51 are now available from:
>> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/current/
>>
>> NOTE: 'Development' refers to the fact that this
>> build is not yet sufficiently
>> stable for Solaris Nevada Integration. We are
>> currently using a Stable build
>> based on GNOME 2.14 in Solaris Nevada. While this
>> build is based on
>> GNOME 2.16, it should be considered to be of similar
>> quality to GNOME
>> 2.15 Development builds.
>>
>> Spec files used in the build are also available.
>> This build requires snv_48 or greater.
>>
>> This build is based on GNOME 2.16.1.
>>
>> Installation Instructions
>> =========================
>> 1) As root, disable the postrun and dbus services to
>> avoid install-time
>> error messages:
>> # svcadm disable svc:/system/postrun:default
>> # svcadm disable svc:/system/dbus:default
>>
>> The HAL packages have been incorporated into the
>> installer so do not have to be installed manually, as
>> was the case for the last JDS Development build.
>>     
>
> Gnome-term now works.  Also in the previous beta version, assigning the desktop icon would cause Nautilus to crash.  This problem seems to have been solved.  Overall, the speed seems to be faster, but I don't have quantitative measure.
>
> Some packages failed to be installed, many of them are java-related.  I simply ignored those error messages, and proceeded to the end of installation, then rebooted.  Now I am posting this message from JDS Vermillion Development build 51.
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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
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General Dynamics C4 Systems
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