Linux support for Mac hardware (Re: [Techtalk] Linux Laptops)

[Maria McKinley]

Another advantage over the X11 term that I was reminded of today is that 
the normal copy and paste mac key combos don't work in the X11 xterm.  I 
love that you can copy and paste in and out of the terminal and all 
other aps.

cheers,
maria

Cynthia Kiser wrote:
> Quoting Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org>:
> 
>>Put whichever is appropriate in the appropriate config file for your 
>>shell.  I think the terminal program native to os x is better than the 
>>xterm in X11, so now I only use the terminal program.
> 
> 
> Maria, I also prefer the Mac terminal app - mostly because I have a
> couple of critical key remappings (alt rather than escape, backspace
> actually backing up, and the apple key in the middle NOT under my left
> thumb where alt belongs) already in place. Thanks for showing me how
> to get X forwarding working with Terminal.app rather than using the
> X11 xterm. I don't often use X (mostly when I need to launch the
> Oracle Universal Installer or need to look at a web page accessible
> only to localhost) so have not been too unhappy; but this will be much
> easier. 
> 
> Just in case anyone else was unclear, the lines that Maria sent the
> list goes in your Mac's .whatever-rc, not in the shell for the machine
> you are ssh-ing into. (Never really understanding where to do the
> DISPLAY and xhost allow stuff is the main reason I converted to ssh
> the instant someone told me about it. Let ssh do all the hard work.)
> 
> 
>>for bash:
>>
>>if [ ${#DISPLAY} -eq 0 ]; then
>>         export DISPLAY=':0.0'
>>fi
>>
>>for tsch:
>>
>>setenv DISPLAY :0.0
> 
>