Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?

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Post by code_devil » Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 2:18 AM UTC

I use putty and have played with secureCRT. What are the other terminals people in HN use on a daily basis.

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Post by jsares » Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 2:36 AM UTC

I've used both on Windows before and also use Cygwin.

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Post by pwmanagerdied » Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 3:05 AM UTC

Could someone explain the interest/value of this post to me? I'm not familiar with anything that would significantly distinguish them.

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Post by mhansen » Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 3:06 AM UTC

Putty, with a cygwin patch. Works fine, only gripe with it is I can't press Windows+Left and have it take up the left half of the screen. It just refuses to resize.

The windows terminal is just horrible.

I tried Console2 but it was buggy as hell, froze all the time, and the transparency made it lag.

Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?

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Post by makecheck » Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 3:20 AM UTC

On the Mac, I use MacTelnet, even as a local terminal. It has an almost ridiculous number of features (compared to Terminal.app or iTerm, anyway), and is very configurable. The main problems are that it is mainly vt100/partial-xterm, and is a beta.

On Linux or Solaris, I use "aterm". It works as well as xterm or rxvt. But it has a lot of nice interface tweaks, such as NeXT-style scrollbars, pseudo-transparency, more intelligent text selection (IMHO), and a way to change colors when inactive.

On Windows, I don't run much locally (since not a lot of useful command-line tools come with Windows). So my terminal work tends to be over SSH to a machine that has real tools. :) I use PuTTY for SSH, and it works very well. My main issue is that it seems unnecessarily hard to do certain things, e.g. copy/paste.

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Post by jcromartie » Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 3:22 AM UTC

Terminal.app as of OS X 10.5 is my favorite terminal. I like to use rxvt under Cygwin.

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Post by graywh » Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 3:26 AM UTC

Xterm.

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Post by DanHulton » Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 3:34 AM UTC

Yakuake. Man, I Plus, I set up a few hotkeys SHIFT+LEFT/RIGHT to move between sessions. SHIFT+DOWN/UP for create/close session. Makes it very easy to do things.

Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?

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Post by shadytrees » Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 3:34 AM UTC

rxvt-unicode with its Perl API [1] and rather amazing list of Perl extensions [2] on Linux OSes, puttycyg on Cygwin. (I recommend puttycyg if you've been using rxvt on Cygwin. Being able to type Unicode characters is an amazingly exhilarating experience, especially if you're lonely.)

[1]: http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/src/urx...

[2]: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html

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#10

Post by slig » Sun, Aug 30, 2009, 3:43 AM UTC

iTerm, on tiger.