Different terminal emulators under X

CyberTron · 2005-05-04 14:27:20

Hi!

I'm looking for a replacement of my gnome-terminal....I like it, but now, when I am using elightenment, I wan't to get rid of everything that is not absolutly needed (each time I start the gnome-terminal alot of extra (needed) programs start (such as bonobo-activation-server and more)...

So I am looking for a new terminal. The features I want is:

* Color support
* Copy/Cut and Paste (with my mouse right click)
* transparency (although I can use composite so it isn't neccessary)
* Tabs seems to be a nice feature (saw it on konsole KDE)

I have tried Eterm, Aterm and obviosly Xterm...none seem to fit me...(might be though that I cannot configure them?!)

if anyone have any suggestions please post them

phrakture · 2005-05-04 15:13:37

ummm - if you're looking for lightweight use either Eterm or aterm... if you want the terminal that goes with your desktop (enlightenment) use Eterm...

as for configuring aterm... it's all done in the ~/.Xdefaults file... the only things you lose are: tabs (just open another terminal), and the copy/paste support you mentioned...
however, copying to/from an xterm/aterm/rxvt/whatever is there, this just different than normal (it involves middle clicking)

xerxes2 · 2005-05-04 16:14:40

I think urxvt is da best, but as phrak says there is no clipboard support in those terminals that are written in pure xlib, you have to use middle click for pasting and your editors features for cutting,
here is pkgbuild, hopefully some tu will place it in community repo soon,

#Contributor: Simo Leone <neotuli@gmail.com>
pkgname=rxvt-unicode
pkgver=5.5
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt"
url="http://software.schmorp.de/#rxvt-unicode"
license=""
depends=('x-server')
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=(http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
#md5sums=('1a5372a40d728c8a50e059b5d826490e')

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-everything
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
}

and here is ~/.Xdefaults

urxvt*scrollColor: gray
urxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=13
urxvt*scrollBar_floating: false
urxvt*scrollstyle: urxvt
urxvt*saveLines: 1000
urxvt*foreground: #eeeeee
urxvt*background: #000022

phrakture · 2005-05-04 16:28:16

xerxes - I think this is in dibble's repo....

CyberTron · 2005-05-04 16:42:56

I thank you all

I have tried urxvt (and the others) and found urxvt rather nice....although, I did found one name "terminal" in the pacman repos...it is an xfce terminal and seems to be lightweight but with my demands

I will stick with that, together with urxvt

thanks for helping me though

ozar · 2005-05-04 16:46:45

You might like mrxvt: http://materm.sourceforge.net/

It's small in size but powerful, and is available in the Arch repository.

Arch Linux

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Different terminal emulators under X

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