[ILUG] Re: Which terminal & why

[Marcus Furlong]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 23:22 in <483F2CBC.607 at verens.com>, Kae Verens
wrote:

> James McCarthy wrote:
>> 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)?
> 
> not sure of the cross-platformedness of it, but I've always been happy
> with Konsole. it just has "comfort" (undefinable - but works for me).
> 

AFAIK it runs on both windows and OSX now:

  http://windows.kde.org
  http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Mac_OS_X

For the OP, I recently started using yakuake, which is a quake-like console
that hides up the top of your screen and pops down when you press F12. I
still use konsole for most work, but sometimes it's a lot handier to have a
terminal pop down quickly with one keystroke. Like if you really only want
to type in a few commands and don't want to Alt-Tab to find your terminal.
It can use all your konsole settings as well, so no need to even spend a
minute customising it. The yakuake website seems outdated at the moment but
the program itself works a treat.

Marcus.