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Offline labeas

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dvtm gives VT/Console tiling: small & cheap.
« on: April 28, 2017, 06:13:27 AM »
Any non trivial task needs to allow multiple files
to be viewable and accessed on the same screen.
wily is superb for this under <X>.

Under <console/VT>:
 sudo su
 REPEATED: openvt
gives you a chain of <root terminals>.

But for a project that uses 3 or 4 files, switching
between terminals is problematic. dvtm help.
Right now, I've got 3 "tiles" opened by dvtm in a
single VT. While I'm writing this I can read browse
and paste from/to different files.

Apparently I previously fetched:
  dvtm_0.6-1_amd64.deb  == only 28K
but wasn't able to install it.

-> ldd /mnt/sdb2/CRG/DVTM/tmp/usr/bin/dvtm
 linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe5a128000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fe55ecfc000)
 libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fe55eaf9000)
 libncursesw.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fe55e8ac000)
 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055b7719b0000)
 libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fe55e69a000)
shows many dependencies. But it runs.

So: cp /mnt/sdb2/CRG/DVTM/tmp/usr/bin/dvtm /usr/local/sbin
[via pasting from other tiles]
?! let's see what happens when dvtm is called from
INSIDE an already running dvtm ?!
Difficult to explain.
BTW on modern wide-screen laptops, 2 tiles gives
 2 of 480X640: "traditional" apps.

Offline Juanito

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Re: dvtm gives VT/Console tiling: small & cheap.
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2017, 06:46:59 AM »
Apparently I previously fetched:
  dvtm_0.6-1_amd64.deb  == only 28K
but wasn't able to install it.

Why don't you compile dvtm on tc, I doubt it would be difficult

Offline labeas

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Re: dvtm gives VT/Console tiling: small & cheap.
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2017, 08:22:00 PM »
> Why don't you compile dvtm on tc, I doubt it would be difficult.
Did I mention that it runs, when I put the binary in the correct place.
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Because this crappy [like my gmail] html-based [so that the FB/twitter
kiddies can see pictures] forum can't keep <threads> like the more
appropriate NNTP technology, of decades ago, which was *DESIGNED* for
the job: I can't easly know what was previously written.
-- I can't cope with my owm tasks, and resist opening another can-o-worms
to try to compile-to-tcz! I've done my job by testing/describing the app.

Offline gerald_clark

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Re: dvtm gives VT/Console tiling: small & cheap.
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2017, 08:33:36 PM »
There is a proper forum thread to request extensions.
The other option is to compile it yourself and make an extension.

Offline labeas

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Re: dvtm gives VT/Console tiling: small & cheap.
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2017, 02:44:26 AM »
My simple HAK works for me.
And dvtm is probably not wanted by current users. They want pictures.
Why else whould they replace competent NNTP, by flipant http.