Proposal: GNOME Frontend Complement for Minicom

[R.L. Horn]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Adam Lackorzynski wrote:

> I'm a bit astonished that 'modern use' requires to have a GUI. A GUI is
> nice, no objections but also adds dependencies and basically limits
> usage to the local system.

"xterm -e minicom" works pretty well for me.

(Well, okay, it's really "xterm -geometry 80x25 -xrm 
'*metaSendsEscape:true' -e minicom -m -c on", but you get the idea.)

Seems to me that a minicom "GUI" would consist largely of Yet Another 
Terminal Emulator, and those are high-maintenance projects in and of 
themselves (the fact that xterm *still* isn't absolutely 100% speaks 
volumes).