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Basu

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From: Cornell University

Registered: 2006-12-15

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The Best Looking Terminal in the World

I just installed Arch yesterday and I've decided to go for a minimal style using E17 or FVWm. thing is, I need a good terminal app, since I want to avoid too many GUI programs. So the question is, what is the best looking terminal app in the world?

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

xterm or urxvt.

wizzomafizzo

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From: Australia

Registered: 2005-12-05

Posts: 53

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Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

I will second xterm, when it has the right configs.

harlekin

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

urxvt

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pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

I'm actually using gnome-terminal now. It was the only one that I could get to display the font I wanted properly. It looks pretty nice.
[URL=http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gtvimiz8.png][/URL]
If the font looks a little funny it's because I'm using sub-pixel hinting. It should look like any other xft font.

Basu

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From: Cornell University

Registered: 2006-12-15

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Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

I will second xterm, when it has the right configs.

What exactly do you mean by "the right configs"?

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Pablo_Escobar

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From: Poznan, Poland

Registered: 2005-12-20

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Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

gnome-terminal
[URL=http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=b385b15b24af4d2c][/URL]
I don't need anything else

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wizzomafizzo

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From: Australia

Registered: 2005-12-05

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Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

Some good colours.. fixing some xterm options up.. that stuff?

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

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Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

aterm

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Zoranthus

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From: muc

Registered: 2006-11-22

Posts: 166

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

Yakuake is also pretty elegant and might be worth a look. It behaves like the console in Quake (scrolls down fromt he top when you hit the shortcut), It  also supports rightclick -> copy and such things by default.

Personally I use aterm.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

xterm +

tyler@tungsten ~ $ cat .Xdefaults 
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: white
XTerm*font: 7x14

good enough for me.

picpak

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Registered: 2006-12-02

Posts: 89

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

aterm +

kim@komputer:~ cat .Xdefaults | grep aterm
aterm*transparent:true
aterm*shading:90
aterm*fading:90
aterm*tinting:gray
aterm*background:Black
aterm*foreground:White
aterm*scrollBar:true
aterm*scrollBar_right:true
aterm*transpscrollbar:true
aterm*saveLines:2048
aterm*font:*-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
aterm*boldFont:*-*-fixed-bold-r-normal--*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
aterm*title: Terminal

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Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

Aterm, I used this guide to configure:

http://linuxreviews.org/software/x11-terms/aterm/

My settings in .Xdefaults:

aterm*loginShell:true
aterm*foreground:White
aterm*background:Grey45
aterm*scrollBar:false
aterm*scrollBar_right:true
aterm*transpscrollbar:true
aterm*saveLines:32767
aterm*font:*-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
aterm*boldFont:*-*-fixed-bold-r-normal--*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
aterm*geometry:60x20
aterm*transparent:true
aterm*shading:60

Edit: Damn, too slow.

timtux

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From: Gävle, Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

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

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smoon

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Registered: 2005-08-22

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Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

I can't believe nobody mentioned Eterm yet :shock:

Richtfest

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From: Mannheim, Germany

Registered: 2006-12-14

Posts: 7

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

Im using urxct. Looks very nice, imho

Snarkout

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Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

Yakuake.

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skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

Yet another vote for urxvt. The package is called rxvt-unicode, by the way.

dmax

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Registered: 2006-10-21

Posts: 58

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

will urxvt work with the vga.pcf font? can't get it working.

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

aterm, xterm

twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

aterm +

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

urxvt

Mr Green

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Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

aterm ++1

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patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

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...).

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jordi

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Registered: 2006-12-16

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Re: The Best Looking Terminal in the World

xterm

but i am still looking for a better color-config

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