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I find a full screen console for each monitor is the way to go. the 
programme 'screen' is a better way to juggle multiple windows than any 
grpahics window manager in my experience, Mac OS X has nice 
transparencies, but it doesnt interoperate with X11 very well (at all 
afaik).


  On Thu, 18 May 2006, mwoehlke wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:02:42 -0500
> From: mwoehlke <mwoehlke AT tibco DOT com>
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: console question
> 
> clayne AT anodized DOT com wrote:
>> Do you use a 640x480 screen? Full screen for a console sounds like a grand
>> waste of field of vision.
>
> Eh, I *love* my full-screen consoles... sooo much text you can see at once! 
> Of course, I also have no fewer than... um... four ;) monitors here.
>
> -- 
> Matthew
> Hey, buddy, if it's OT, TITTTL!
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