The Best Looking Terminal in the World

Basu · 2006-12-17 15:52:22

I'm going to try out mrxvt. I hear it's based on aterm, so it should be able to do what aterm can. Now i need to find a good configuration guide. Any suggestions?

patroclo7 · 2006-12-17 16:37:39

It was based on aterm, but it is nowadays fully rewritten departing directly from rxvt.

The /etc/mrxvt/mrxvtrc.sample installed by the arch package is well commented, but does not cover the most up-to-date options. The 'man pages' is a complete and instructive reading.
Here you can find some docs:http://materm.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main/Documentation
My configuration is heavily commented and I would be happy to send it, but it is commented in Italian, so probably not very useful for you!

stonecrest · 2006-12-17 16:50:17

urxvt.

True transparency, unicode, ability to act like a "quake" terminal, clicking on links, tabs (gtk or non-gtk), etc. What can't it do? And it's still quite light.

icrave · 2006-12-17 17:13:42

stonecrest wrote:

urxvt.
True transparency, unicode, ability to act like a "quake" terminal, clicking on links, tabs (gtk or non-gtk), etc. What can't it do? And it's still quite light.

HOOOWWWWWW?

Please tell it me. (Open links and tabs)

superstoned · 2006-12-17 17:32:20

Konsole and yakuake. session restore and naming of tab's is what i love ;-)
of course very configurable, good looking fonts, pretty fast as well, and real transparency support when you have a compositing windowmanager running (needs the patch in kdemod).

ro0x · 2006-12-17 18:00:20

icrave wrote:

stonecrest wrote:
urxvt.
True transparency, unicode, ability to act like a "quake" terminal, clicking on links, tabs (gtk or non-gtk), etc. What can't it do? And it's still quite light.

HOOOWWWWWW?
Please tell it me. (Open links and tabs)

http://princ3.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/ … s-support/

for the links add this to you ~/.Xdefault file

URxvt*urlLauncher:      firefox

icrave · 2006-12-17 18:14:18

Thanks ro0x.

stonecrest · 2006-12-17 19:01:41

For links, I think you also need:

*perl-ext-common:matcher
*matcher.button: 1

(The second line is optional, but I find it nicer to left-click on links than the middle-click default.)

As for tabs, you can also just execute urxvt-tabbed.

Mr Green · 2006-12-17 19:23:20

aterm +++

tizoc · 2006-12-17 19:36:13

patroclo7 wrote:

A vote for mrxvt, also if you do not need tabs. Very lightweight (it uses less memory than xterm and urxvt, and just a bit more than aterm), easy font management, possibility of defining personal keyboard shortcuts in an easy way in the config file and of changing everything on the fly (toglle the menubar, the scrollbar, the tabbar...).

My vote goes for mrxvt too.

mrxvt + yeahconsole = lightweight, nice looking, tabbed quake-like console

kamagurka · 2006-12-18 03:15:23

With a few tweaks of your .Xdefaults, urxvt looks awesome and uses nearly no resources. Here's how I configured it:

$ cat ~/.Xdefaults
urxvt*background:  #000000
urxvt*foreground:  #ffffff
urxvt*color0:      #000000
urxvt*color1:      #9e1828
urxvt*color2:      #aece92
urxvt*color3:      #968a38
urxvt*color4:      #414171
urxvt*color5:      #963c59
urxvt*color6:      #418179
urxvt*color7:      #bebebe
urxvt*color8:      #666666
urxvt*color9:      #cf6171
urxvt*color10:     #c5f779
urxvt*color11:     #fff796
urxvt*color12:     #4186be
urxvt*color13:     #cf9ebe
urxvt*color14:     #71bebe
urxvt*color15:     #ffffff
urxvt*fading:    15
urxvt*tintColor: #ffffff
urxvt*shading:    60
urxvt*inheritPixmap: True
urxvt*scrollBar: False
urxvt*font: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*

I only have one problem:
Umlauts aren't displayed in urxvt. I assume that's because the font I'm using doesn't support that. However, I looked in xfontsel and couldn't find any fonts with umlauts (thät's thöse cräzy lööking chäracters we Germäns üse sömetimes), even though I have them somewhere (I mean, they show up in Firefox fine). Anyone know how to fix this? Or what I'm missing?

patroclo7: Could you send me a copy of that config file?

byte · 2006-12-18 05:04:16

Just guessing: If your locale is de_DE.utf8 and you configure urxvt to use ISO fonts it's no wonder you see no umlauts.

Basu · 2006-12-18 05:37:54

tizoc wrote:

patroclo7 wrote:
A vote for mrxvt, also if you do not need tabs. Very lightweight (it uses less memory than xterm and urxvt, and just a bit more than aterm), easy font management, possibility of defining personal keyboard shortcuts in an easy way in the config file and of changing everything on the fly (toglle the menubar, the scrollbar, the tabbar...).
My vote goes for mrxvt too.
mrxvt + yeahconsole = lightweight, nice looking, tabbed quake-like console

Is yeahconsole in the repos of do I have to compile from source? a quick pacman -Ss yeahconsole didn't turn up anything.
Thanks

Basu · 2006-12-18 06:20:07

patroclo7 wrote:

It was based on aterm, but it is nowadays fully rewritten departing directly from rxvt.
The /etc/mrxvt/mrxvtrc.sample installed by the arch package is well commented, but does not cover the most up-to-date options. The 'man pages' is a complete and instructive reading.
Here you can find some docs:http://materm.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main/Documentation
My configuration is heavily commented and I would be happy to send it, but it is commented in Italian, so probably not very useful for you!

I'd be glad to have your config. Don't worry about the documentation, the syntax is fairly easy to understand.
Thanks

byte · 2006-12-18 06:31:13

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=yeahconsole

kamagurka · 2006-12-18 14:38:19

byte wrote:

Just guessing: If your locale is de_DE.utf8 and you configure urxvt to use ISO fonts it's no wonder you see no umlauts.

My point is that I found no utf fonts in xfontsel, even though I obviously have some somewhere (as I said, my X apps show all the chars fine).

F · 2006-12-18 20:29:45

xterm or urxvt.

phrakture · 2006-12-18 22:08:36

kamagurka wrote:

byte wrote:
Just guessing: If your locale is de_DE.utf8 and you configure urxvt to use ISO fonts it's no wonder you see no umlauts.
My point is that I found no utf fonts in xfontsel, even though I obviously have some somewhere (as I said, my X apps show all the chars fine).

That's because those are two completely different font systems. Try "fc-list" for fontconfig fonts.

Crooksey · 2006-12-19 00:01:12

timtux wrote:

urxvt:
http://timtux.net/images/16dec06.png
http://timtux.net/files/configs/dotXdefaults

I love that! How can i make my terminal slightly more transparent?

Richtfest · 2006-12-19 00:08:54

Edit your urxvt*shading.
My urxvt*shading for example is:

urxvt*shading:      -40

rab · 2006-12-19 00:13:35

urxvt or xterm

Crooksey · 2006-12-19 00:17:16

That is tinting white, how do i set the tint color to black?

Thanks for the tip

icrave · 2006-12-19 00:33:14

I put on .Xdefaults:

urxvt*urlLauncher: swiftfox
urxvt*perl-ext-common: matcher 
urxvt*matcher.button: 1

When i launch urxvt I have this error:

urxvt: perl extension 'matcher ' not found in perl library search path

I need an extra package?

stonecrest · 2006-12-19 03:01:37

icrave wrote:

When i launch urxvt I have this error:
urxvt: perl extension 'matcher ' not found in perl library search path
I need an extra package?

It was changed to matcher in version 8.0, do you have an older version? And if so, why?

Tatey · 2006-12-19 06:49:48

recently I switched from GNOME to Openbox. This lead me to switch to a lighter terminal. I noticed from the desktop screenshots that a fair few people were using urxvt. I can't believe I didn't use this earlier!

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