Terminals

[Martin Dengler]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:08:17PM -0400, pgf at laptop.org wrote:
> michael wrote:
>  > One of our present security difficulties is that the Terminal activity
>  > is not isolated. It is de-isolated so that it can serve the dual role of
>  > root terminal and 'general exploration' terminal. Perhaps reviving the
>  > Quake Terminal for the root-terminal role and isolating the Terminal
>  > activity proper would be a nice way to solve half of our security issue?
> 
> a) what's the Quake terminal

A vte-based widget run from within the Sugar shell:

http://xo.cutup.org/quake-terminal.txt

> b) how does it help?

It runs within the Sugar shell, so it's privileged.

> paul

Martin
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