Good Terminal for X?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:26:10AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:
> > 
> > I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome 
> > libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are 
> > nice)
> > 
> > xterm does display some things correctly (like sysinstall type command 
> > line GUIs).
> 
> Try x11/rxvt-unicode. It doesn't require Gnome nor KDE libraries, and it does
> handle unicode well. It's a lot lighter than xterm. And it has transparancy or
> backgrounds if you like that.

It's not "a lot lighter" - I made a table recently to investigate.
See

	http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_rxvt

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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