Subj : Re: Editing Mystic screens under Linux.
To   : bcw142
From : paulie420
Date : Sun Aug 01 2021 18:21:39

 bc> Medit.utf
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 bc> Editing Mystic screens under Linux. 
 bc> 
 bc> This requires some knowledge and setup in general, but using Mystic you
 bc> are  already ready for command lines. I use the LXTerminal rather than
 bc> the default  terminal of Ubuntu. LXTerminal offers edit in the title bar
 bc> and pretty normal  mouse copy and paste features. Much better than the
 bc> default GNOME terminal  emulator of Ubuntu and the like. 
 bc> Ubuntu and most Linux setups allow you to use different desktop setups
 bc> using  the round Ubuntu icon at login. When your default name comes up
 bc> there is also  a round Ubuntu Icon you can click on and if you have
 bc> multiple desktop setups  you can pick one. LXTerminal is a lighter setup
 bc> and has the black background  expected by Mystic. There is a color setup
 bc> for it, but I don't have it setup  at present as it works OK without
 bc> loading it, though the colors are off.  The colors are ANSI so they
 bc> don't copy from Mystic anyway as the sequence  isn't saved in normal
 bc> copy & paste. The normal nodespy screen would look  like this:
 bc> 

Nice tip; you just mean the terminal emulator LXTerminal, right?? I'll have to give that one a go as Konsole isn't the BEST... it works, but... I recently had ANSI character issues because I edited a prompts.txt in nano with UTF8 instead of CP437...

I'll have to check out LXT.



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