[SOVLED] Searching for Konsole replacement for XFCE

theomega · Last edited by theomega on Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:10 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hy,
I used KDE on my Notebook, Im not realy pleased with it: It useses much ram, and the worst of all: It writes to my harddisk without doing anything what prevents my harddisk from falling into suspend mode. So I looked for alternatives and found xfce. Its just the thing I searched for except one thing:

I realy liked the Konsole of KDE because of its Hotkeysupport (Hotkeys are first handled by Konsole and if there was no action send to the terminal), because of its tab-support and because of its clipboard integration. All these things Im missing at the standart xterm of XFCE. I tried out rxvt which supplied non of these features and I tried mrxvt. This seems closer to Konsole than all other terminals but I got the following problems:

1. I some applications (Like VIM) Hotkeys like Shift+Left are not working because vim handles them
2. It doesnt integrate very good into xfce: The look is completly different and ugly
3. It doesnt support the GTK Clipboardcommands, so there is no copy and paste but only this middle mouse button which I dont like
4. The Buffer is much to small: When I use Shift+Page up to scroll I dont get enough lines. I dont know how to change this

Does anybody know a alternative application for konsole? I dont want to use konsole because it pulls up ked and other kde tools and the harddiscproblem will continue.

Thanks
TO
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stobbsm · Guru Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 452

I use terminal, that comes with xfce. Not sure about hotkeys, but it has tabs, true transparency (if you use the latests svn), seems to support using Shift+Insert to paste something (can't remember copy), and has lots of lines to go back to.

I think you should give it another try.
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theomega · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

Hy,
okay, sounds good, but how to I create tabs? Please tell me the shortcut.

Thanks
TO
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stobbsm · Guru Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 452

Shift+Ctrl+T
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theomega · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject:

Hy,
no, sorry, but thats not working, nothing happens if I press this keys. Are you sure you got the "normal" xfce terminal? Because this Terminal is only a xterm which doesnt tabs imho. Could you please tell me which additional Software I have to install?

Thanks
TO
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stobbsm · Guru Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 452

if you want the true transparency, xfce-extra/terminal-9999

get's it from svn, which is the xfce I suggest you use anyways.
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Element Dave · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 82

jeanfrancis · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:47 pm Post subject:

theomega · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:33 am Post subject:

Okay, thanks to everyone, terminal seems to be just what I needed. Thanks!
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