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View Poll Results: What is your favorite terminal emulator? | |||
xterm | 11 | 35.48% | |
rxvt | 1 | 3.23% | |
aterm | 4 | 12.90% | |
eterm | 0 | 0% | |
dtterm | 0 | 0% | |
Gnome Terminal | 1 | 3.23% | |
KDE Konsole | 7 | 22.58% | |
Other | 7 | 22.58% | |
Voters: 31. You may not vote on this poll |
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Favorite Terminal Emulator
Hello,
What is your favorite terminal emulator - and why?
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I chose xterm, why? because it does what it's supposed to do..
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I wish xterm would support tab, right now, Im still using gnome-terminal
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xterm.
Because.. I like it? |
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In that order: urxvt / urxvt -pe tabbed / xterm / mrxvt / terminator
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Xterm. Because it is part of X windows system and default OpenBSD installation. It has very small memory footprint and is extremely light on resources. It does the job. It is very easy to configure. It is already present on any Unix or Unix like system.
I do understand that some people have special needs for instance support for Asian languages and xterm is not the best solution for them. For people who keep citing tabs as an excuse to use memory hogs like gnome-terminal or kde-console I would suggest to look at dvtm. Dvtm is console/terminal-emulator manager inspired by dwm (dynamic window manager) tiling manager for X windows system. It is extremely light program which will allow you to lunch multiple xterm sessions in the same xterm or even split a console to multiple consoles on the systems which do not run X. All of then is done in tilling fashion so you will have all of your xterms before your eyes at any given moment. http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/ The full power of dvtm is however in console. How many times did you wish you could have multiple console sessions on a headless server for instance. Now you can. Cheers, OKO |
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That looks a lot like BSD window(1), for a person who loves using base utilities.. why use a port Oko?
Have fun.. oh, and as a bonus.. it supports overlapping windows, take that tiled managers! |
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I'd vote None if I could, lol.
I don't really have a favorite terminal emulator, in fact I used to collect them once upon a time. If I didn't have any special needs, I would use xterm for the same reasons as everyone else; it's always there if X is. I have two "special needs", a terminal that supports some usable form of transparency and an 'endurance' font! I prefer support for UTF-8, but the only non-ascii symbols I need to display are: £, €, ä, ö, ü, and ß - so it's not a big problem. I use my term for almost everything text related, including writing code in vim. So it is set to a large size (20, 22, or 24px) of the Terminus font, usually in the dimensions of 25~35 lines by 80~90 columns depending on what I'm doing. I also prefer a terminal emulator with tabs, I don't like small fonts, overlapping windows, or terminal multiplexers. Currently I've found x11/Terminal and Console to work best for me. But I tend to change my default terminal emulator periodically, just like web browsers lol. If my term didn't support some form of transparency, I would *never* see my wall paper, and that would default the point of running the X Windows System on my laptop.
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I love using things from the base. You posted a very useful information. Last edited by Oko; 26th October 2008 at 08:55 PM. |
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My favorite is x11/Terminal -- tabs, easy copy/paste (with configurable shortcuts), and easy to change colors, font, background, transparency, etc.
I actually run it on icewm (not xfce).
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The only bad thing about Terminal, the default setting for $TERM is "xterm", in some programs you might want to set this to something more colourful. Terminal supports at least 80 colours I think, and it can do 16 with ease.
Me, I like vim/mutt with the default 8 colours hehe.
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Does BSD Window run in console as Screen and dvtm do? The man page seems to indicate so, but I want to make sure.
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They may share some features, but many people use GNU screen for it's "detaching" features.. i.e: useful for multiplexing a single terminal among several users.
But I prefer either misc/tmux or misc/dtach for that. BSD window and "dvtm" are simply console window managers.. Quote:
Why didn't you just test it out? switch into another virtual console while X is running.. type "window". |
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I just wanted to tell him the same. After your initial message about Window that was the first thing that I did. The second thing, I did, was to remove dvtm from all my computers
Last edited by Oko; 27th October 2008 at 12:36 AM. |
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The reason I didn't test it out is that I'm not running BSD right now. I'm on Slackware. I don't have NetBSD fully running right now (I did check their site and it is a part of their base, too). I got my current desktop right at the start of the semester, and I got it installed but that is it. I have Slackware up and running and during the middle of the semester, I lack the time and courage to tinker with the system that has all my homework and configured software. In the past, I gather all these ideas during the semester and then test them out during the breaks. With the laptop coming, I'm planning on making that exclusively NetBSD - so I'll have a more-or-less dedicated system to that so I can try all this out.
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I happen to like Terminal. It does what I need, more light-weight and doesnt need ton of dependiencies like gnome-terminal
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