[conspire] Xubuntu 10.10 and xfce4-terminal

[roger at rogerchrisman.com]

>> Back to "Terminal" vs "terminal," are there any other commands that
>> use capital letters?
>
> Depends on what's installed, of course.
> rmoen at borgia:~$ ls /usr/bin | egrep "[A-Z]"
> ControlPanel
> GET
> HEAD
...

Huh? When I cut and paste that command, ls /usr/bin | egrep "[A-Z]",
into my xfce4-terminal it lists _everything_ in there regardless of
case. Arggg! Output is too long for xfce4-terminal to buffer. Lots of
all lower case commands in there. Same when I go to a terminal with
Cntl+Alt+F1 and type it there. I'll use -c to show the count.

roger at x:~$ ls /usr/bin | egrep -c "[A-Z]"
1584

I'll use --max-count=5 to show this

roger at x:~$ ls /usr/bin | egrep --max-count=5 "[A-Z]"
2to3
2to3-2.6
411toppm
a2p
a2ps

However, I can type the whole alphabet upper case... this is fun!

roger at x:~$ ls /usr/bin | egrep [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]
amuFormat.sh
GET
HEAD
POST
Thunar
X
X11
Xorg

I wonder why "[A-Z]" doesn't work in my egrep but does in yours? I
tried it with and without quotes around the brackets.

>> If I knew who to file a bug report with I might do it.
>
> This might help:  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Bugs

Thanks for that link.

> As to X11 terminal apps, why not just install all of the possibles that
> seem even remotely interesting, try them all to see which ones you like,
> and 'apt-get remove' the ones you don't care for?  (Foolish
> consistencies, hobgoblins, and all that.)

Xfce4-terminal works well for me so far. It has, tabs, cut-and-paste
and scrolling. What feature that you enjoy does it lack?

Roger
Palo Alto