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AlexS

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2009-05-16

Posts: 114

A nice terminal for openbox?

I've just finished my first Arch install, and at the moment I have basically openbox and firefox running on my laptop.

My next step would be to look for a nice terminal program. Because I needed something right away, I installed rxvt-unicode-256colors. My question is the following:

What is the most comfortable/lightweight terminal around that I could install, that plays nice with openbox? By this I mean for instance that copy paste would be possible between the terminal and other applications, font antialiasing, etc. Maybe this has nothing to do with the terminal, and with the proper configurations one can get everythig from rxvt, but I'd like to hear some suggestions and pointers from other people who are using openbox before I consider investing more time on rxvt.

NeOnsKuLL

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From: Havana, Cuba

Registered: 2005-03-29

Posts: 117

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

Sakura, that's the terminal I use since more than a year and a half.

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Floft

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Registered: 2009-11-15

Posts: 43

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

When I was using openbox a while ago I just used the default terminal application, /usr/bin/terminal. Since I was using Openbox with LXDE, by default there was also lxterminal installed, but I didn't really use it.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

I've used xterm, Terminal, and currently Terminator. Just try them and see which you like best.

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

urxvt with Xdefaults stolen from wiki and modifying it slightly.

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monstermudder78

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Registered: 2008-05-18

Posts: 120

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

Sakura, that's the terminal I use since more than a year and a half.

+1

Zeist

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Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 532

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

urxvt with Xdefaults stolen from wiki and modifying it slightly.

+1

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mikesd

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-01

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Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

urxvt - have been using it for years.

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is nice.

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XFire

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From: UK

Registered: 2008-05-11

Posts: 192

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

Sakura, that's the terminal I use since more than a year and a half.

+1

+1 too. I've found it to be the best terminal.

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sw2wolf

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From: China

Registered: 2009-06-08

Posts: 99

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Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

roxterm is light and fast

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

When I was using openbox a while ago I just used the default terminal application, /usr/bin/terminal.

Minor correction - there is no default terminal application for openbox. If /usr/bin/terminal is on your system, you have installed the terminal package.

ijanos

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 443

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

Urxvtd + urxvtc is light, customizable.
Also, dont forget that openbox is a window manager. It should work with every possible X application. So it will "play nice" with every terminal, choose what you like.

linuxgod

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 50

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

"xterm -ls -bg black -fg white" is the best

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syre

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 100

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

Urxvtd + urxvtc is light, customizable.
Also, dont forget that openbox is a window manager. It should work with every possible X application. So it will "play nice" with every terminal, choose what you like.

urxvt in deamon mode is indeed extremely light if you usually have alot of terminals open, and it can look very sexy aswell

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

I use stjerm. It's a quake-style dropdown terminal based on vte. Like tilda, but without all the bugs of tilda.
Otherwise lxterminal, Terminal, sakura, evilvte, roxterm, etc... are all based on vte, so they're pretty much the same. Then there's xterm and rxvt.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

Terminator

Chokkan

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Registered: 2009-04-06

Posts: 129

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

urxvt with Xdefaults stolen from wiki and modifying it slightly.

+1

+1 more

I played around with zsh a few installs ago, but now urxvt does everything I feel I need and looks great.

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From: /home/jac

Registered: 2009-05-19

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Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

urxvt with Xdefaults stolen from wiki and modifying it slightly.

+1

+1 more

urxvtd and urxvtc are really nice.

I played around with zsh a few installs ago, but now urxvt does everything I feel I need and looks great.

Hmm? zsh is a shell, not a terminal emulator. I use zsh in urxvt

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Registered: 2006-11-26

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Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

When I was using openbox a while ago I just used the default terminal application, /usr/bin/terminal.

I don't see how terminal is 'default'? It's the in-house terminal for Xfce, but that's as default as it gets...

I used Gnome-terminal for a while, until someone decided to build it with full gnome deps (it was pretty lightweight before that). Now I'm back with Xfce's Terminal.

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JohannesSM64

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From: Norway

Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 623

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Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

The name "Terminal" is about as convenient as "Screen" and "Awesome"

guisacouto

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2009-06-27

Posts: 107

Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

I use lilyterm.. copy paste works very well (ctrl+x for copy, and +p for paste).. it has loads of options to and its pretty lightweight in my opinion..

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tlvb

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 297

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Re: A nice terminal for openbox?

I've used urxvt before, but it had some annoyance[s] (which I have since forgotten).
xterm is nice, if you don't need transparency and clickable links, and I don't.

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