* Marcus Blumhagen marcus.blumhagen@web.de [20070828 03:20]:

first of all I'd like to thank the devs for providing one of the best, if not *the* best, linux live system I have come across to date.

I like the very good default configurations for the applicatins I have used so far. Especially I like how you made GNU/screen and zsh shine. I had to adapt those configs for my Debian box, since the usability is greatly improved. Also it was the first time I have ever used zsh and thanks to your work I now have a shell on steroids :). I use it as my default login shell on any system I can get it. I can never live without it anymore. You've got it alright when saying: "zsh rocks." :)

Thanks for your kind words.

But I am missing a tiny application, which for me greatly improves my experience of using the X environment. It is called 'yeahconsole' [1], a drop down terminal emulator which is capable of embedding an xterm or an urxvt. By using it together with GNU/screen I could reduce the number of open urxvt windows to just one. And there is no need to retag the x-terminal window (or make it sticky) just because one wants one GNU/screen session on all workspaces.

By default one can toggle its visibility by the shortcut CTRL-MOD-Y and it is reachable from every virtual dektop or workspace. It is of course very customisable through Xresources and has a full screen mode too (MOD-F11 by default), so one is able to get a nice fullscreen high resoultion terminal under X even beyound the limitations of the textmode console.

And last but not least its installed size is <100KB.

Or maybe there is something similar already in grml? I have checked [2] but there seems to be nothing. I have search that list for kuake, yeahconsole, tilda and yakuake since those are the alternatives I know about on a Debian system. But in the lack of more fantasy what to search apt-cache for, I might have missed one.

[1] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/yeahconsole [2] http://grml.org/files/release-1.0/dpkg_list

Damn, I'm using yeahconsole even on my own desktop. I just told grml to ship it with the next release so we both get what you requested for and what I forgot to request from /dev/brain. :)

[x] integrated yeahconsole in grml

regards, -mika-