Lightweight terminal emulator?

[João Cruz]

Yep, xterm/UTF-8 works for me as well.

João

On 9/14/05, Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 03:05 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2005-09-15, Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> >
> > >> 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.
> >
> > Yup. I've been experimenting with xfce4-terminal. It's not
> > nearly as bloated as gnome-terminal, though it's still 4-6
> > times larger than aterm. The proble with xfce4-terminal that
> > is as yet unsolved is that I can't convince it to use a decent
> > terminal font. By decent, I mean something like the X11 "misc"
> > 7x14 bitmapped font. The scalable rendered fonts are all too
> > ugly to look at for 10 hours a day.
> 
> Personal preference, of course, but I've been using the Bitstream Vera
> family of fonts for more than 10 hours a day (on some days) for several
> years now. Still, I acknowledge that you want a certain (somewhat
> obsolete) font on a modern desktop.
> 
> Fortunately, xterm, aterm, wterm, and rxvt exist and can be used and
> don't rely on pango/gtk to load fonts.
> 
> > But, ubuntu doesn't appear to have any of the "misc" bitmapped
> > fonts in UTF encoding. They're all there, but they're all
> > ISO-8859-1 encoding, but the whole distro is UTF8-only.
> >
> > I'm not sure the "UTF8-only" thing is really ready for
> > prime-time.
> 
> Works for me, and apparently a large number of Ubuntu users.
> 
> I feel your pain though, it sucks when the old ways of doing things
> don't fit into the new models...
> 
> > --
> > Grant Edwards grante Yow! .. I don't understand
> > at the HUMOR of the THREE
> > visi.com <http://visi.com> STOOGES!!
> >
> >
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