Favourite Terminal Emulator?

[Tim Writer]

William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Does anyone (everyone?) have a favourite terminal emulator?  Why?
> 
> I've been using rxvt-unicode for a while, because it's Unicode-aware and
> quick.  I love the flexible features of Eterm, but it is very slow and
> doesn't as far as I can tell, speak Unicode, but for tailing logs in a
> handle-less fixed position window, it can't be beat.

Mine is xterm, mainly because it's not bloatware and, in my experience, it's
terminal emulation is far better than more modern variants. I use screen
within xterm which gives me multiple shells in one window (like tabs in
konsole and others) but also allows me to detach from and reattach to a
running process. I disable the scrollbar because screen allows me to navigate
the scroll buffer as if I'm in vi -- far more useful than a scroll bar and
doesn't require any screen real estate. And xterm has Xft support so you can
get nice anti-aliased fonts too.

IMO, the only reason to use another terminal emulator is that xterm is a PITA
to configure, requiring use of .Xresources files and such which is bit
daunting for non-technical users.

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