[KLUG Members] NetTerm Equivalent for Linux

[Adam Williams]

>At my place of employment we are looking at the possibility of switching
>some of our users from Windows to Linux workstations for all of the
>obvious reasons (licensing restrictions, cost, etc.).  Our users
>currently telnet to a SCO Openserver machine using NetTerm where they
>use our collection software.  Because of this they have grown used to
>many of NetTerm's features most notably the button bar which has copy,
>paste, and screen print buttons.  

We use NetTerm on our winblows boxes, it is a very nice terminal emulator.

>I've been looking for something that is roughly equivalent to NetTerm
>but will run under Red Hat 8.0 but so far have found nothing that even
>comes close.  While I realize that some of those features can be
>duplicated using keystrokes and screen capturing software I'd like to
>minimize the changes from the perspective of our current users. 

You might want to look at multi-gnome-term.  If that doesn't have want you 
want then contact the gnome-terminal maintainer.  Seriously.  He has 
called for feature requests before.

>So I guess it comes down to this question.  Have any of you ever seen an
>Xterm-like program that has a button bar with copy, paste, and print
>buttons on it?  If all else fails I can modify an existing program but
>I'd like to avoid it if I can.

I think multi-gnome-term does.
http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net/