Comments on: Best of both worlds: twin

By: twin, vwm and my imagination « Motho ke motho ka botho

twin, vwm and my imagination « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:37:14 +0000

[...] yet it never seems to pan out that way in real life. I’ve mentioned twin in the past, and it does an admirable job of pursuing that dream … and yet seems to be pushing toward [...]

By: tnote: Simple is good « Motho ke motho ka botho

tnote: Simple is good « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:59:21 +0000

[...] your terminal screen: You won’t get that effect unless you combine tnote with something like twin, or run it in an emulator on the desktop. And even then it won’t feel quite the [...]

By: Mikko

Mikko — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:47:06 +0000

I tried to use twin a couple of years ago but I remember some strange problems with it. I tried to install it a few weeks ago, but I just could not get it function with openSUSE & framebuffer.

By: Ian.A

Ian.A — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:31:05 +0000

A little offtopic, but you might be interested in checking out the recently-released Haiku alpha. I’d definitely like to hear what you have to say about it. It’s supposed to be a BeOS-like operating system, and I know that BeOS was supposed to absolutely shine on lower-end hardware. 10-second boots on 400mhz Pentium II processors, that kind of thing.

By: Tuxuser

Tuxuser — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:32:38 +0000

also has the VWM.
VWM appears to be the coolest.
but I could not compile it, always give error …
http://vwm.sourceforge.net/

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Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:31:25 +0000

[...] Best of both worlds: twin I have mentioned a lot of console applications over the past few weeks, but usually either in conjunction with screen-vs, or with something running under X, like Musca. [...]

By: Ali Gündüz

Ali Gündüz — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:43:44 +0000

My main problem in trying out twin is gpm. The cursor doesn’t exactly follow the mouse and jump around. Also, the clicking the right mouse button doesn’t make it show the menu, which I believe is GPM’s fault (or rather my inability to configure it properly. I have GPM_ARGS=”-m /dev/psaux -t imps2″ in my /etc/conf.d/gpm and start gpm with sudo gpm -m /dev/psaux.)

But when i ran twin in a terminal emulator under X, it all ran quite beautifully. Even htop didn’t crash it

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:37:27 +0000

I’ve tried twin, but the problem I had with it (and am continuing to have, as your post made me try it again) is that I can’t seem to get framebuffer apps (mostly mplayer and links -g) to work within it, which is the only real deterrent I would have to utilizing it full time (granted I haven’t looked into getting FB apps to work much, so I might just be a bit premature in my judgements here)

Also – you may want to debug your copy of twin a bit. I just watched htop for about 35 seconds and nothing happened at all on my end – no spikes and certainly no crashing, though that may be attributed to my hardware – which is admittedly MUCH newer than yours.