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

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Post by glymor »

antileet wrote: post #39
sielskr wrote: post #13

Gnome Terminal because of its text smoothing (and because it adheres to a set of human interface guidelines).

I used to use Gnome-terminal for the same reason, but it doesn't behave great with screen sometimes, and has some other small issues. I'd recommend mrxvt, a superset of rxvt. It's lighter, has support for tabs, fonts, transparency, etc. http://code.google.com/p/mrxvt/wiki/Main

Are you talking about the backspace issue? There are some old patches from ubuntu that show how to fix it (though they they don't seem to use them themselves anymore):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/vte/+bug/29787/com...

rxvt and friends gave me problems using truetype fonts. They have their own code for calculating widths which gives the wrong answer even when it's monospaced.

I wish there were more terminals. It may seem like there's a lot but they are derived from a fairly small number of roots and they inherit all of the bizarre behaviour.

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

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Post by thingie »

glymor wrote: post #47
sielskr wrote: post #13

Gnome Terminal because of its text smoothing (and because it adheres to a set of human interface guidelines).

For those that don't run gnome you can run vte directly, just download the source and compile the demo app.

There are tons of vte based terminals. Terminal of xfce, for example, which is quite "lightweight".

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

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Post by glymor »

thingie wrote: post #52
glymor wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those that don't run gnome you can run vte directly, just download the source and compile the demo app.

There are tons of vte based terminals. Terminal of xfce, for example, which is quite "lightweight".

I don't have xfce installed either. The sample app is perfectly complete, you don't need a GUI for a terminal.

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

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Post by yangyang »

gaius wrote: post #46
blasdel wrote: post #32

On Windows I use MinTTY -- it is basically perfect on that platform. It's bizarre how ridiculously terrible every other windows tty is: simple shit like text selection, copy-paste, window resizing, fonts, etc. is universally missing. I only discovered it due to my boss' "install everything" cygwin policy, as it's in their repo and its installer puts a link on your desktop. PuTTY is bad enough as an SSH client, much l…

CME.EXE is about backwards compatibility. New work should be done in PowerShell' which is quite clever (think Unix pipes with COM objects instead of plain text).

That's a shell, not a terminal emulator.

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

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Post by guicifuentes »

apu wrote: post #35

konsole. It's so much better than the gnome-terminal (monitor for silence/activity rules!). Actually, in recent years, it seems like gnome has gotten harder and harder to use for an expert in all aspects...I occasionally have to work on a gnome machine and it's pure hell trying to figure out how to get simple stuff to work. Of course, perhaps this is their goal in any case: target n00bs and grandmas to increase marke…

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

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