rxvt-unicode along with urxvt daemon (or urxvtd). No smoothing or transparency.
A good companion to xmonad.
Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
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Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#72Could someone explain the interest/value of this post to me? I'm not familiar with anything that would significantly distinguish them.
I managed to get quite a few excellent tips out of this discussion. I found a far less buggy terminal, and discovered a feature of Windows I didnt know existed.
Seems like a good deal to me...
Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use Powershell as a tabbed terminal too.
You're confusing shells and terminal emulators (if you can call them that under windows). You can use the "Powershell ISE" thing as a tabbed "terminal", but Powershell itself will quite happily run under the windows console "terminal emulator".
I am indeed using the term 'Powershell' to mean both the language and the ISE/terminal. I am doing this because the authors of Powershell do the same.
Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#74eterm is kinda fun
http://www.enlightenment.org/
Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#75Rxvt, normally on Cygwin. If I had more use for Unicode in practice, I'd use urxvt on non-Cygwin. Also, when ssh into remote boxes, I often use screen, which effectively ends up being a pretty crappy terminal - major failure mode is loss of scrollback buffer, Ctrl-A ESC notwithstanding.
> Ctrl-A ESC notwithstanding. Huh? The loss of the scrollback buffer sucks... except for that other scrollback buffer?
Mouse wheel / Shift+PgUp is infinitely more usable for scrollback access than Ctrl-A ESC. Ctrl-A ESC is sufficiently hard to access that it might as well not be a feature - rather than scroll up to see a command's output, I re-run it piped to less.
Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to use aterm, but one thing drove me to change -- Unicode support. Now, I use rxvt-unicode. Since making the move, though, I've grown to love rxvt-unicode's daemon mode and discovered that pseudo-transparency works better than it did on aterm. I mention my reasons for choosing rxvt-unicode over other terminal emulators here: http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=451
rxvt-unicode also supports true transparency when you have a composite manager active.
True -- but I like the way AHWM works more than the way Compiz works, so that's not really a concern for me.
Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love the daemon (aka "client/server") operation of rxvt-unicode, and the fact that with all its capabilities it's still smaller than xterm.
I've used the mode and I really liked it, except when it starts to behave buggy needing to kill the server loosing all the windows. I prefer to name it psycho mode.
I don't have that problem. Perhaps there's something glitchy about the way rxvt-unicode works with your setup in particular -- which might be an rxvt-unicode problem, but not a problem that affects me, evidently.
Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Konsole you can split the window a là Emacs or Vim buffers, which is pretty handy always. The special keys works, not like F1 in gnome-terminal which opens the help. How many times do you switch between terminals because you need to copy something or whatever? That's over with Konsole
konsole is great for long term work, and yakuake is better for some one time command!
for a 1 time command that I don't need to look at again I'd just use alt+f2 kde's 'run prompt' is pretty good. of course it doesn't actually provide the 'shell environment'.
Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#791. Tilda.
* Buggy when you have transparency enabled and resize ( or minimize and then maximize ) the terminal. Otherwise, looks and feels great.
2. Yakuake. * No bugs that I have discovered, and looks great. Is meant for KDE, but works awesomely on GNOME as well. The only nuisance is the title bar ( which can, at present have a minimum height of 1 pixel ), and we can't make it disappear completely.
Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
rxvt-unicode also supports true transparency when you have a composite manager active.
True -- but I like the way AHWM works more than the way Compiz works, so that's not really a concern for me.
You could also try to stomach xcompmgr for compositing...