Best Terminal Emulator For Fluxbox?

solarwind · 2008-03-22 16:06:19

What is the best terminal emulator for Fluxbox? What do you guys use? What looks the nicest? What has transparency? Right now I'm using gnome-terminal but I don't want gnome installed on my system. I'm also using thunar to manage files.

Misfit138 · 2008-03-22 16:17:13

solarwind wrote:

What is the best terminal emulator for Fluxbox?

Only you can answer that.
I use Terminal when in Fluxbox. pacman -S terminal

BC · 2008-03-22 16:28:25

Questions like these are just a matter of taste. You basically just asked, "What's better, Coke or Pepsi?"

Sprite, of course, is the correct answer.

bgc1954 · 2008-03-22 16:38:05

I happen to like rxvt-unicode no matter what kind of DE/WM I'm running. Seems to be popular amongst Arch users. Lightweight too.

kazuo · 2008-03-22 16:38:28

So what about not the 'best' but what you use?

I'm using openbox with urxvt because a lot o ppl in here use it and because it have the two must for me unicode and 256 colors. But I'm missing my konsole from kde4 it have a lot of great features (lit can change cursor shape, don't paste extra newlines at the final of output ...).

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dyscoria · 2008-03-22 16:43:55

Am I the only one who just sticks to xterm?

Guess i'm just boring then

solarwind · 2008-03-22 16:44:30

Misfit138 wrote:

solarwind wrote:
What is the best terminal emulator for Fluxbox?
Only you can answer that.
I use Terminal when in Fluxbox. pacman -S terminal

Yeah, that would be the xfce4-terminal. I love that one!

BC wrote:

Questions like these are just a matter of taste. You basically just asked, "What's better, Coke or Pepsi?"
Sprite, of course, is the correct answer.

I'm not posting this to start a coke/pepsi war. Orange juice is best. What I'm asking here is what do YOU guys use because I want to KNOW what's OUT THERE. So I can TRY them MYSELF.

bgc1954 wrote:

I happen to like rxvt-unicode no matter what kind of DE/WM I'm running. Seems to be popular amongst Arch users. Lightweight too.

Can it do transparency?

kazuo wrote:

So what about not the 'best' but what you use?
I'm using openbox with urxvt because a lot o ppl in here use it and because it have the two must for me unicode and 256 colors. But I'm missing my konsole from kde4 it have a lot of great features (lit can change cursor shape, don't paste extra newlines at the final of output ...).

I'll check out urxvt.

bgc1954 · 2008-03-22 16:53:48

Yeah, urxvt can do I believe they call it pseudo-transparency. Just put the line urxvt*transparent: true in your .Xdefaults file or create one if you don't have one already. There are lots of posts here in the forums with sample urxvt .Xdefault files. You have to put something like feh --bg-center /home/username/picture.jpg in your autostart file as well for the transparency to work. You need to pacman -S feh for that. Or in fluxbox just follow the Background section of the wiki : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fluxbox

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pommes_ · 2008-03-22 16:57:47

dyscoria wrote:

Am I the only one who just sticks to xterm?
Guess i'm just boring then

No, you're not alone out there...

joephantom · 2008-03-22 18:04:49

One great thing of urxvt is urxvt daemon:
"This manpage[urxvtd describes the urxvtd daemon, which is the same vt102 terminal emulator as urxvt, but runs as a daemon that can open multiple terminal windows within the same process.

You can run it from your X startup scripts, for example, although it is not dependent on a working DISPLAY and, in fact, can open windows on multiple X displays on the same time.

Advantages of running a urxvt daemon include faster creation time for terminal windows and a lot of saved memory.

The disadvantage is a possible impact on stability - if the main program crashes, all processes in the terminal windows are terminated. For example, as there is no way to cleanly react to abnormal connection closes, "xkill" and server resets/restarts will kill the urxvtd instance including all windows it has opened. "

eerok · 2008-03-22 19:16:58

kazuo wrote:

I'm using openbox with urxvt because a lot o ppl in here use it and because it have the two must for me unicode and 256 colors.

Actually Urxvt has only 88 colors, which is why I use Sakura instead. (I use 256 colors for vim.)

kazuo · 2008-03-22 19:59:37

eerok wrote:

kazuo wrote:
I'm using openbox with urxvt because a lot o ppl in here use it and because it have the two must for me unicode and 256 colors.
Actually Urxvt has only 88 colors, which is why I use Sakura instead. (I use 256 colors for vim.)

Yes this is the motive for 256 colors, vim! Urxvt support 256 color if you use the package from aur. I gonna try Sakura (I like the name... ^_^) You know how to make Sakura and other vte base terminal transparent when using xcompmgr?

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eerok · 2008-03-22 22:22:26

kazuo wrote:

eerok wrote:
kazuo wrote:
I'm using openbox with urxvt because a lot o ppl in here use it and because it have the two must for me unicode and 256 colors.
Actually Urxvt has only 88 colors, which is why I use Sakura instead. (I use 256 colors for vim.)
Yes this is the motive for 256 colors, vim! Urxvt support 256 color if you use the package from aur.

Thanks for that info ... I didn't know about that package

kazuo wrote:

I gonna try Sakura (I like the name... ^_^) You know how to make Sakura and other vte base terminal transparent when using xcompmgr?

No, I use xcompmgr but I don't generally use transparent terms. However, the xfce term is also fairly light and is transparent with xcompmgr (package name is "terminal").

blu3ness · 2008-03-22 22:33:34

urxvtd + urxvtc get my vote

Ashren · 2008-03-22 22:39:14

Sakura seems nice, but it irritates me that I can't remove the scrollbar. So, in the long run it's a no go. I used to use urxvtd/urxvtc but it looks like crap in dwm. Terminal on the other hand looks very nice in dwm, but is sluggish the first time you run it (I guess I could preload it or something). Hence no absolute perfect terminal for me, yet.

Perhaps uxterm or perhaps eterm. No transparency on the first one and the other ones dev cycle seems to have stopped.

Urxvtd/urxvtc is perfect for flux though.

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Misfit138 · 2008-03-22 22:50:50

I forgot to mention my beloved Yakuake!

solarwind · 2008-03-22 22:51:02

Ashren wrote:

Sakura seems nice, but it irritates me that I can't remove the scrollbar. So, in the long run it's a no go. I used to use urxvtd/urxvtc but it looks like crap in dwm. Terminal on the other hand looks very nice in dwm, but is sluggish the first time you run it (I guess I could preload it or something). Hence no absolute perfect terminal for me, yet.
Perhaps uxterm or perhaps eterm. No transparency on the first one and the other ones dev cycle seems to have stopped.
Urxvtd/urxvtc is perfect for flux though.

For me, so far, the xfce4-terminal (terminal) is really nice. Yes the first time you run it, it takes a while to start up but that's no big deal.

eerok · 2008-03-22 22:57:48

I guess I"ve converted to rxvt-unicode-256color and urxvtcd now ... it seems good, and changing things around once in a while tends to shake the spiderwebs from the skull

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solarwind · 2008-03-23 00:10:59

Thanks for the ideas guys!

sajro · 2008-03-23 02:35:15

bgc1954 wrote:

I happen to like rxvt-unicode no matter what kind of DE/WM I'm running. Seems to be popular amongst Arch users. Lightweight too.

I love it, too. I first found rxvt in Puppy Linux and then started using it in Arch because I wanted something light with a scrollbar.

dyscoria wrote:

Am I the only one who just sticks to xterm?
Guess i'm just boring then

XTerm is great! I just prefer urxvt because I want something with a scrollbar by default. I love configuration, but a terminal is something so basic I don't want to configure it. I prefer "pacman -Q | grep lib" and scrolling with the bar to "pacman -Q | grep lib > lib.txt; vi lib.txt" as I'd do in xterm.

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