which is best ?term ?

ugluk · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 64

I know you're gonna hate me for this question, but which of the ?terms (wterm, xterm, aterm, eterm, ...) do you think is best? I've been using konsole, but now I am looking for something new. Do there exist online polls on what people think is best?

tarpman · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:16 am Post subject:

There's all sorts of interesting information about people's opinions around terminals, including polls, in Off the Wall.

adekoba · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 129

i've had the best results with urxvt (rxvt-unicode in portage). it's fast and actively maintained. it also supports unicode!
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Xenogis · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 8

I use xterm just because it won't get messed up if I accidentally unmerge a library and it is really fast.
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swimmer · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:18 am Post subject:

I want to bring 'xfce-extra/terminal' in the picture ... before I was a happy user of rxvt-unicode but despite the 'unicode' in the name it never could display in elinks *all* characters from the UTF-8 test-pages like http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-test/UTF-8-demo.html. The support for xft-fonts is better as well - I could know use serif fonts without the ugly spacing I'm used from rxvt-unicode (and other terminal programs).

Greetz
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thuk · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:55 am Post subject:

Hi There,

I'd not normally respond to a thread like this, but being a kind of
console lover in all the wrong ways, I'd just like to put forward
x11-terms/mrxvt. Unicode, tabs, profiles, transparency & fast.

Cheers,

thuk.

ugluk · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 64

Last time I've used rxvt, it looked similar to xterm in a way, but I didn't experiment much. Often when I look at screenshots I see a lot of eye-candy and it's easier to ask, then emerge everything and try.

yngwin · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:51 pm Post subject:

Personally I prefer Konsole. But urxvt is also pretty good.
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Zagloj · Guru Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 344