[ILUG] Which terminal & why

[Jimmy Tang]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:28:32AM +0100, Rob Gallagher wrote:
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> 2008/5/29 James McCarthy :
> > I've been using Gnome terminal for a while since that is what's default (in
> > work & my home desktop) however I'm having issues with colours & keys on
> > some apps.
> >
> > My question is which terminal would you recommend & why (xterm or Gnome
> > terminal)?
> >
> 
> I've been using urxvt* for a while and I'm really happy with it. As
> the name implies it's basically an rxvt fork with unicode support.
> With a fixed font and some colour tweaks in my xdefaults it's just
> about perfect.
> 
> *http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
> 
> rg
> 

I too use urxvt, i use the urxvtd server and urxvtc clients. It behaves
nicer than rxvt/xterm in general.

JImmy
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