iTerm and Irssi

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I was having problems getting iTerm to work well with irssi.. specifically.. using the alt/option key to swap between tabs in irssi. Alt wasn’t doing it..even when set to Meta or +esc. So I dug around and found this in some comments to someones post about needing a new term app.

If you’re on a Macbook(Pro) laptop, and using irssi with screen on a remote machine via ssh; heres what works (for me)

To switch between irssi windows (normally alt+1 etc.) – use;
Press Esc, let go – then press number, 1, 2 whatever

(To pageup/pagedown – use this keyboard sequence (must be in this order)

Press (and hold) Shift-key, now Press and hold fn-key, now with these keys pressed (in that order) – press the pageup (arrow up) or pagedown (arrow down) keys to pageup/down)

If your backspace key is acting as a ‘delete’-key in irssi in screen, Hit command+I, in terminal to bring up your window preferences, under the Keyboard settings, tick ‘Delete key sends backspace’ – that should fix that.

So, slightly more tricky on the laptop, but achievable none-the-less

Matt

Thanks, Matt

Who ever you are.

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A good bulk of free stuff

After getting bored, just write *.doc files I wanted more!In the everyday use of a sysadmin, you need heaps of open terminals – that’s right!

I decided towards the nice iTerm, to have tabs available and much more nice features.

I love Mac – download – double click – drag and drop -> USE! awesome..

Next toy to get advantage of the build in iSight (and use our land-line replacement) skype needed to be installed.

Mail and browsing tools are basic! Choice: Thunderbird and Firefox from the mozilla familie 🙂

To extract packages (in zip tar whatever format) I selected the free tool stuffit.

Vlc is my video tool (with vlc browser plug-in)

To get connected to my office OpenVPN client tunnelblick (what is a awesome word for a VPN prog, when you are familiar with the german language :)).

Yeah – getting closer to all the installation stuff you need.

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Bring office applications to Mac

All cool – with a blanc MacOsX installation a user should be happy already.

But what a lot of people need, is a application that handels there .doc’s .ppt’s etc.. That counts for me aswell.

My choice to go around a Micro$oft applications was for NeoOffice (I thought about OpenOffice but asked a bit around in the circles of mac hackers – and it looks like everybody is using Neo).

It’s a simple step: Download the Package from Neooffice.org.

NeoOffice is not based on X11 like Openoffice what makes it easy to set up, go ahead and install the NeoOffice package (double-click and use) – should just work!

FUN! The office package is in place.

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