Lightweight terminal emulator?

[Michael R Head]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 21:46 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Can anybody recommend a lightweight terminal emulator?  The
> default "gnome-terminal" is a monstrosity.  It takes forever to
> start up and at 38MB Virtual and 13MB resident it's the largest
> program runnnig on my machine.  It's larger than the X server
> or XFCE4 window manager.
> 
> 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.

xfce has it's own terminal program that's similar to gnome-terminal but
seems to be a bit peppier.

xfce4-terminal is the package name.

mike

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