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Operating Systems AIX I want the perfect user-interface Post 302362495 by dr_te_z on Friday 16th of October 2009 07:43:30 AM

10-16-2009

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I want the perfect user-interface

I've got an aix-box somewhere on the network and a PC on my desk. Nothing fancy so far.
The PC is made dual-boot:
- windowsXP with putty & winSCP
or
- slackware 13 with xfce4 installed.

The aix-box runs DB2 v8.2 and I've installed db2top to monitor the database.
db2top is a character based app (like top) and can display a lot of usefull information in a nice way.

So I try to figure out how I can present this info on my screen
1) linux character based (tty1, tty2, etc): Just ssh to aix and start you app. Does not work because aix is not aquinted with "TERM=linux". So you overrule this by typing "export TERM=dtterm" and all is good: nice colors and nice line-draws.
When you start GNU-screen first and then ssh to aix, you font is suddenly not able anymore to display lines. Strange...
2) linux grahical: on your xfce desktop you start Terminal (the standard xfce4 term app) and ssh to aix.
Now you do not get your colors (TERM=xterm) so you try TERM=dtterm. Now you do not get your lines drawn (same as GNU-screen mentioned earlier)
The next option is "TERM=aixterm" That looks better:
Colors? Yes!
Lines? Yes!
Perfect? No! The lines are not aligned.... A screen-row with a line starting on a position > 1 is aligned right.
Windows+putty give the same results as xfce-terminal: not perfect.

I thought that installing linux on my desktop would give me a perfect user-interface to my aix-boxes.
Was I too optimistic?

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xfce4-popup-windowlist(1)				      General Commands Manual					 xfce4-popup-windowlist(1)

NAME

       xfce4-popup-windowlist - shows the Xfce window list applet popup

SYNOPSIS

       xfce4-popup-windowlist [ -pointer ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the xfce4-popup-windowlist command.

       xfce4-popup-windowlist shows the Xfce window list if at least one Xfce window list applet is present on one of your panel(s).

       The  default behaviour is to show the window list near the applet button.  If you have several Xfce window list applets, only the first one
       you have set up will pop up.

       If you want to pop up the window list without using the window list applet on your panel(s), see the manual page for xfdesktop(1).

OPTIONS

       -pointer
	      The window list appears at your current mouse position instead of its default position.

SEE ALSO

       xfce4-popup-menu(1), xfdesktop(1)

AUTHOR

       xfce4-popup-windowlist is Copyright (c) 2006 Darren Salt.

       This manual page was written by Francois Wendling <frwendling@free.fr> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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