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<chapter>
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
This chapter provides a general overview of PowerShell. It
lists its features and future plans. Later chapters will go into
more detail.
</para>
<sect1>
<title>What is PowerShell?</title>
<para>
PowerShell is a terminal emulator on crack for the
<ulink url="http://www.x.org"><citetitle>X Window System</citetitle></ulink>.
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:
<itemizedlist mark=bullet>
<listitem>
<para>
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
<ulink url="http://lynx.browser.org"><citetitle>Lynx
</citetitle></ulink> and email addresses open
<ulink url="http://www.washington.edu/pine/">
<citetitle>Pine</citetitle></ulink>)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Complete support for transparency, background pixmaps,
custom color schemes, etc...
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
User-defineable menu items which create new terminals
with a specified program running in them. When the program
exits, the notebook tab disappears.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fully<ulink url="http://www.gnome.org">
<citetitle>Gnome</citetitle></ulink>-based and compliant.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
For more information on PowerShell, check out its website at
<ulink url="http://powershell.pdq.net">
<citetitle>http://powershell.pdq.net</citetitle></ulink>. The current
version will always be available there.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Requirements</title>
<para>
PowerShell requires
<ulink url="http://www.gtk.org/"><citetitle>GTK</citetitle></ulink>
1.2 or greater and
<ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/"><citetitle>gnome-libs</citetitle></ulink>
1.0.10 or greater (1.0.40 or greater suggested for complete functionality,
including URL matching.)
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
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