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Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by jbrennan » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 9:06 PM UTC

Is there anyway to make HN more readable? I seriously find the contrast between the Headline and points/submitter line to be very difficult, especially once the page has been visited.

Am I the only one who finds the readability to be poor?

Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by sunkencity » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 9:13 PM UTC

Terminal.app is better than the terminal in 10.4 but it still feels slow. Booting X11.app and using xterm or rxvt is so much faster, in every little command there's a slight wait in Terminal.app, while it's instant in rxvt or mrxvt. Here's my .Xdefaults file for getting good colors in xterm and rxvt

http://pastie.org/368122

Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by nailer » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 9:27 PM UTC

Zev wrote: post #19

yan wrote: post #6

Not very impressive. I'll take the "Pro" theme with size 13 font any day over this.

Pro + Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (10pt) for me.

OSS UI God Raph Levine has an Open Source Consolas called Inconsolata you might want to try on Linux.

Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by graywh » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 9:44 PM UTC

marcher wrote: post #11

graywh wrote: post #9

No self-respecting terminal user should suffer with Terminal.app--xterm supports more colors and more features. Even iTerm is a better alternative.

Terminal.app isn't so bad once you install TerminalColours and MouseTerm. xterm can be difficult to configure, it doesn't do tabs, and copying and pasting follow X11 rules in it. I prefer native applications wherever possible. iTerm on the other hand is slow and bug-ridden. The last thing I want when using a terminal is for it to render choppily and crash on me.

Terminal.app still only supports 8* colors. And GNU screen is a more-than-capable replacement for tabs.

I'll have to try out MouseTerm later.

Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by graywh » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 9:59 PM UTC

yan wrote: post #4

sant0sk1 wrote: post #3

I have a strange problem on Leopard that I didn't have on Tiger where I lose all my ctrl+ commands. I can't ctrl+l to clear the screen, I can't ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line, etc. I use iTerm normally but have confirmed this problem with Terminal.app also. Has anybody else run into this? Very frustrating.

Mine works just fine. What do you use as your terminal settings? (terminal preferences -> advanced -> declare terminal as) Mine's set to xterm-color, and all the bindings work just fine.

Terminal.app doesn't behave exactly the same as an xterm, so using "xterm-color" is not ideal. I would suggest "dtterm" or "Apple_Terminal" if it's available.

Re: High Readability for your Terminal.app

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Post by Zev » Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 10:27 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #23

Zev wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pro + Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (10pt) for me.

OSS UI God Raph Levine has an Open Source Consolas called Inconsolata you might want to try on Linux.

I use Mac OS X. Inconsolata is a nice font, but I'm not a fan of using it in the terminal. It's too curvy when compared to Consolas for my liking (which is my font in Xcode). Take a Look at the end of the letters "C", "S", "e", or "y" for example. To put it a different way, Consolas is to Helvetica as Inconsolata is to Arial. Only, Consolas isn't a hideously overused font.

I'm a bit of a font nerd and personally believe that Bitstream Vera font family is the single best UI-related project to come out of Linux.