This chapter provides a general overview of PowerShell. It lists its features and future plans. Later chapters will go into more detail.
PowerShell is a terminal emulator on crack for the X Window System. It was originally designed to reduce desktop clutter by allowing people to put many terminals in a single window, with each one given its own notebook tab. It has since aquired many useful features, including:
URL Handling - click on an http:// link or email address and PowerShell will open the application associated with that link (for example, by default http:// links open Lynx and email addresses open Pine)
Complete support for transparency, background pixmaps, custom color schemes, etc...
User-defineable menu items which create new terminals with a specified program running in them. When the program exits, the notebook tab disappears.
Fully Gnome-based and compliant.
For more information on PowerShell, check out its website at http://powershell.pdq.net. The current version will always be available there.