Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–86 of 86 posts

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

#81

Post by pyre »

barrkel wrote: post #75
pyre wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Try Ctrl-A + [ which puts you into 'copy mode' and ] to exit 'copy mode'. While in copy mode you can use arrow keys and/or page up/down to go through screen's scrollback buffer.

I usually run anything that will have a wall of text piped to less anyways (with or without screen).

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

#82

Post by apotheon »

pyre wrote: post #80
apotheon wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Wikipedia's information about it confuses me. It says xcompmgr is a window manager, but it says it "does not replace any existing window manager". Does this mean it would replace AHWM, or that it would just add compositing to AHWM -- or something else entirely?

Also . . . what about it is difficult to "stomach"?

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

#83

Post by pyre »

apotheon wrote: post #82
pyre wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could also try to stomach xcompmgr for compositing...

Wikipedia's information about it confuses me. It says xcompmgr is a window manager, but it says it "does not replace any existing window manager". Does this mean it would replace AHWM, or that it would just add compositing to AHWM -- or something else entirely? Also . . . what about it is difficult to "stomach"?

xcompmgr is a Composite manager. It will run along side any other window manager (that doesn't already do compositing... this excludes Compiz, newer KWin, Xfce4's window manager, but exactly what would happen if you tried to run xcompmgr and Compiz at the same time I don't know). It just does things like add drop shadows around windows and enable true transparency. {edit} You can configure the drop-shadows or disable them through command-line options {/edit}

I said 'stomach' because xcompmgr has been unstable at times in my experience. IIRC, none of the xcompmgr crashes have taken down X11 or the window manager. I have not used it in a while though so it may have changed, but I was under the impression that it doesn't get much work done on it. It's original goal was just to be a reference/example implementation of the compositing extension for X. I could be wrong though and it might be in a more stable state now.

If anything you might be motivated to see if there is a way to run it with debugging information. I can't imagine it's highly complex in the way that I assume Compiz is. It might be fairly easy to do some fixing up of it, as long as a person is motivated to look into it.

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

#84

Post by apotheon »

pyre wrote: post #83
apotheon wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wikipedia's information about it confuses me. It says xcompmgr is a window manager, but it says it "does not replace any existing window manager". Does this mean it would replace AHWM, or that it would just add compositing to AHWM -- or something else entirely? Also . . . what about it is difficult to "stomach"?

xcompmgr is a Composite manager. It will run along side any other window manager (that doesn't already do compositing... this excludes Compiz, newer KWin, Xfce4's window manager, but exactly what would happen if you tried to run xcompmgr and Compiz at the same time I don't know). It just does things like add drop shadows around windows and enable true transparency. {edit} You can configure the drop-shadows or disable…

Thanks for the information. I think I'll give that a look on a test system, if only to see whether I care enough to bother.

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

#85

Post by pwmanagerdied »

pyre wrote: post #42
pwmanagerdied wrote: post #3

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

* Unicode support * Transparency/Pseudo-transparency support * Interactions with other systems and their termcap/terminfo files. * Interaction with GNU screen (iirc, the 'auto-detect' feature of XFCE4-Terminal for which backspace sequence to send fails for me currently when using screen. I have to force it to use ^H as backspace) * Support for more than just Type-1 fonts. * How does the scrollback buffer work? gnome-…

Jesus, I'd been using gnome-terminal sine I switched over to Linux full-time a few months ago. I assumed that the reason it was sluggish was because I'm running it on an old machine. I just installed rxvt-unicode after re-reading your post, and even after enabling a background image for no good reason it blows gnome-terminal away.

Thanks a lot, this is something worth knowing.

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

#86

Post by mickt »

ramy_d wrote: post #31
mickt wrote: post #20

Guake, 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

+1 for Guake.

And for some reason I can't get visor to work on Snow Leopard ... grrr.
Post reply on HN