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nuttygamergeek

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Registered: 2008-11-24

Posts: 15

Looking for GTK2/transparent terminal emulator

I've been trying to find a decent terminal emulator that fulfills my requirements, nothing quite hits the mark for me so far!  I need a terminal emulator that has the following:

* GTK2
* tabs
* mouse scroll - for apps such as man, less etc as well as scrollback
* true transparency
* click urls and launch in a browser
* Not too many dependancies, gnome, kde etc

Any suggestions would be appreciated!  I've tried xterm, Sakura, Termit, evilvte, Terminal, lxterminal.  I'm currently using urxvt which is close to what I want.

Lord Illidan

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From: Malta

Registered: 2007-10-25

Posts: 248

Re: Looking for GTK2/transparent terminal emulator

I've been trying to find a decent terminal emulator that fulfills my requirements, nothing quite hits the mark for me so far!  I need a terminal emulator that has the following:

* GTK2
* tabs
* mouse scroll - for apps such as man, less etc as well as scrollback
* true transparency
* click urls and launch in a browser
* Not too many dependancies, gnome, kde etc

Any suggestions would be appreciated!  I've tried xterm, Sakura, Termit, evilvte, Terminal, lxterminal.  I'm currently using urxvt which is close to what I want.

gnome-terminal fits all those...Tried it?

eDio

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From: Ukraine, Kyiv

Registered: 2008-12-02

Posts: 422

Re: Looking for GTK2/transparent terminal emulator

ROXTerm

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Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Looking for GTK2/transparent terminal emulator

rxvt-unicode

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esters

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 173

Re: Looking for GTK2/transparent terminal emulator

mlterm

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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Looking for GTK2/transparent terminal emulator

gnome-terminal then.
Although, might I suggest staying with urxvt and using gnu screen ?
Besides all the other advantages, you won't need no terminal tabs

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Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: Looking for GTK2/transparent terminal emulator

gnome-terminal then.
Although, might I suggest staying with urxvt and using gnu screen ?
Besides all the other advantages, you won't need no terminal tabs

Although urxvt does support tabs if you still wanted.

For me, I have never had any use for tabs in terminal. all i need to start a terminal is a Mod4+t anyway. easy enough to hit and brings up the terminal instantly and I don't have a panel in any of my WMs, so I don't have to worry about it taking up real estate on the task bar

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haxit

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Re: Looking for GTK2/transparent terminal emulator

gnome-terminal sounds just about right!

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Registered: 2008-11-13

Posts: 18

Re: Looking for GTK2/transparent terminal emulator

My 2 favorite terminals are xfce4-terminal and urxvt (rxvt-unicode).  Both will do what you want, but I happen to like urxvt a little more - just preference I guess.