Re: Preferred terminal emulator

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought I fixed that quite a while ago and I think, Aaron, you were 
running that version.

I'll take a look again.  The session counts weren't being properly 
recorded and then removed but, again, I thought I had fixed that.

Pete


Aaron Bartell wrote:
> >although it tends to not clean up its threads when closed.
>
> Ha!  I am not the only one experiencing that problem - good to know. 
>  For anybody wondering what Jose is talking about, just open up 
> tn5250j and close it, then check the Processes tab in System Monitor 
> (Ubuntu terms) and you should see a Process Name of "java" that is for 
> the supposedly ended tn5250j application.  If you don't catch this 
> then after starting tn5250j a number of times you will have a bunch of 
> processes that are still out there consuming 150MB+ of memory for each 
> instance.
>
> I guess I should really be logging this on the sourceforge.net 
> <http://sourceforge.net> forum now that I know people are still 
> monitoring that project.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
> http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Jose Antonio Salazar Montenegro 
> <0jsalazarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:0jsalazarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     We should start by commenting about how we connect to the System i
>     using Linux.
>
>      
>
>     Last year I the official IBM client, but found it annoying to
>     install and unstable. Tn5250 was better, and I really liked the
>     multitabbed tn5250j, although it tends to not clean up its threads
>     when closed. In the end I was more comfortable running Symtrax
>     through Wine.
>
>      
>
>     What are your experiences with terminal emulation on Linux desktops?
>
>      
>
>     P.S.
>
>     I think this list is a great idea, and this topic should be a good
>     starting point. Kudos for all the Linux users out there.
>
>      
>
>      
>
>
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