iTerm, on tiger.
I used to use Terminal, but switched to iTerm for a single feature (useful labels on tabs).
Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
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#12Putty, 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.
Wow, I had no idea about the Win-Arrow window resizing thing. Thanks for mentioning it.
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#13Gnome Terminal because of its text smoothing (and because it adheres to a set of human interface guidelines).
Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#14Terminal.app as of OS X 10.5 is my favorite terminal. I like to use rxvt under Cygwin.
I'm using 2.1 on 10.6...I think it's about the same as 2.0.
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#15Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#16Terminal.app as of OS X 10.5 is my favorite terminal. I like to use rxvt under Cygwin.
Try out iTerm sometime. Much, much faster and lighter than Terminal.app. I switched to iTerm when Terminal.app crashed while compiling Haiku ... twice. The problem, I believe, was the large amount of compiler output.
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#17Yakuake. 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.
You can also do this with Terminal.app on OS X with this: http://visor.binaryage.com/
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#18rxvt-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
rxvt-unicode also has some of the best (most accurate, most complete) terminal emulation out there, second only to xterm. Daemon mode is also a neat trick if you're running on a limited-memory system.
Re: Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
#19Terminal.app as of OS X 10.5 is my favorite terminal. I like to use rxvt under Cygwin.
Try out iTerm sometime. Much, much faster and lighter than Terminal.app. I switched to iTerm when Terminal.app crashed while compiling Haiku ... twice. The problem, I believe, was the large amount of compiler output.
I used iTerm before Leopard, but it crashed at least once a week, and sometimes it would just forget settings, and it used up an insane amount of resources if you left it open for a few days (and shutting down all my ssh sessions and restarting them is not my idea of a good time, nor is trying to figure out where I put this server or that server in the tab list; I like them to stay at the same position so I don't have to consciously think about that).
When Leopard came out, it had a Terminal.app that fixed essentially all my issues with the previous Terminal.app, including having tabs, etc, and it hardly uses any resources at all, and stays open without crashing for weeks at a time (in fact, I don't think I've ever managed to crash it). Now that there's a copy-on-select plugin for SIMBL for Terminal.app, it's just about perfect.
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#20Guake, which provides a Quake like terminal and quick and easy access to a terminal using the F12 key. Plus, it supports anti-aliased fonts and multiple tabs.
http://trac.guake-terminal.org/
On my Mac at work I use Visor. http://docs.blacktree.com/visor/visor