Lightweight terminal emulator?

Lee Braiden lee_b at digitalunleashed.com
Wed Sep 14 22:08:37 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 14 September 2005 22:46, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Can anybody recommend a lightweight terminal emulator?  The
> default "gnome-terminal" is a monstrosity.
> I've been using aterm (1/10 the size of gnome-terminal) for 
> many years, but it doesn't have UTF-8 support, so the move to
> supporting only UTF8 locales broke aterm.

xterm and rxvt are the two stalwarts.  xterm loads like lightning.  If you 
want unicode, uxterm is a wrapper around it to set that up.  I'm not sure if 
it's always necessary, though.

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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