Lightweight terminal emulator?

[João Cruz]

Not exactly the same as tabs but behaves the same... xterm + screen do 
wonders for me.

João

On 9/15/05, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:05:38AM +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.
> 
> I once used Linux on a Pentium 75 MHz ThinkPad with 40 megs of RAM.
> Memory was precious. I did some research and discovered that rxvt was
> the smallest terminal emulator (and had all the features of aterm).
> 
> Later I switched to xterm because I needed UTF-8 support (plus it was
> incredibly configurable via its X resources, and I *like* Atherna style
> scrollbars).
> 
> Then gnome-terminal seduced me because it had tabs. (Of course, this
> happened after I got a better computer.)
> 
> I've heard that there's a version of rxvt that supports UTF-8 these
> days. You could try that one.
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> You can ask modern Xft2/Pango/fontconfig-using applications to support
> the old bitmapped fonts by uncommenting a single line in
> /etc/fonts/local.conf. Or you can let dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig do
> that for you. 7x13 at 75 dpi used to be my favourite font. Fontconfig
> calls it 'Fixed'.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Look for the fonts in ISO-10646-1 encoding. Debian had them for a long
> time. xlsfonts -fn -misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1 shows they're there on my
> Ununtu system.
> 
> > I'm not sure the "UTF8-only" thing is really ready for
> > prime-time.
> 
> Maybe, a bit -- but it is past time to drag the old UTF-8-unaware apps
> kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Midnight Commander is the
> only UTF-8 unaware app that I sometimes want to use ('cause Nautilus
> doesn't have directory compare).
> 
> Marius Gedminas
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