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malachi

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Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 15

Quest for a good Terminal app

Hi

I've recently switched to using Openbox on Arch, and I've searched far and wide and haven't been able to find a terminal app that follows these requirements:

(1) does not import half of gnome or KDE
(2) capable of using true transparency
(3) handles copy/paste sensibly

The closest I can find is urxvt (rxvt-unicode) which is lightweight, can handle true transparency, but has insanely irritating copy/paste features: it will tend to decide to paste any text-string that may have come up at some point since I originally copied something (i.e. if I click on firefox's url-bar and the url gets highlighted, or if i hit alt-f2 and the previous command is highlighted), while pasting into any other app pastes what's in my clipboard, and indicated by my clipboard-program (parcellite).

Other popular choices such as aterm (I really like the tinting effect), xterm and terminator all seem to be unable to use true transparency, in spite of compositing being enabled.

Any suggestions?

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Quest for a good Terminal app

Terminator ?

malachi

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Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 15

Re: Quest for a good Terminal app

How does one enable true transparency in Terminator?

update: ah I see - clicking the "enable real transparency" box in the profile editor didn't work (just showed a black background) but if I set it in the config file, it worked out great. Thanks

Last edited by malachi (2009-09-06 09:20:41)

hw-tph

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Registered: 2006-11-01

Posts: 149

Re: Quest for a good Terminal app

3) Regarding copying and pasting: What you are experiencing is the tried and true X Window System copy/paste functionality. It works great once you get used to it, and using it in combination with the Windows-like copy/paste functionality of GTK (etc) apps can be quite rewarding, knowing that you have two separate paste buffers at your disposal.

I'm not saying it's perfect but it has worked for a lot of people for a long time. And calling it "insanely irritating" because it doesn't do it the Windows way is a bit over the top, IMHO.

linkmaster03

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Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 269

Re: Quest for a good Terminal app

I agree with hw-tph. You should really give the X clipboard (select+middle click) a chance. It's a lot easier than Ctrl+C/V in my opinion, and even if you don't mind using that method, it's great to have two separate buffers.

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: Quest for a good Terminal app

You could give rxvt-unicode-256color from [community] a try, it's compiled differently to the one in [extra], was much less irritating for me, so I stayed. Maybe it's the same for you.

Yannick_LM

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 142

Re: Quest for a good Terminal app

sakura might be what you're looking for.

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Quest for a good Terminal app

sakura might be what you're looking for.

I don't think sakura has real transparency, does it?

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Rasi

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Registered: 2007-08-14

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Re: Quest for a good Terminal app

roxterm is pretty cool and its url support is great too (even can open a specific part of the url)

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Yannick_LM

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 142

Re: Quest for a good Terminal app

I don't think sakura has real transparency, does it?

oops, my mistake, Sorry

doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 404

Re: Quest for a good Terminal app

Try the xfce terminal ('terminal'), it works well for me in openbox. Dependencies and other info:

austin@austin-desktop ~ % y -Qi terminal
Name           : terminal
Version        : 0.4.0-1
URL            : http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal/
Licenses       : GPL2
Groups         : xfce4
Provides       : None
Depends On     : exo>=0.3.101  vte>=0.20.5  dbus-glib>=0.80
                 startup-notification>=0.9  hicolor-icon-theme
Optional Deps  : None
Required By    : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 3220.00 K

Last edited by doorknob60 (2009-09-08 03:24:24)