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Pulling _all_ Enlightenment[1] dependencies just for a terminal emulator is a waste of time and space. Why would I use that instead of rxvt ? 1: https://www.e

by hyyypr 11y ago

Pulling _all_ Enlightenment[1] dependencies just for a terminal emulator is a waste of time and space. Why would I use that instead of rxvt ? 1: https://www.enlightenment.org/?p=about/terminology https://www.enlightenment.org/?p=about/terminology

Flow 11y ago
Tell that to the guy above who uses a Linux VM just to get a speedy terminal. :)
- e12e 11y ago
  Well, fwiw my local Debian Jessie claimed terminology along with dependencies (that weren't already installed) would claim 24MB. Pretty steep for a terminal. I tried opening one each of Terminology and Sakura[s] -- and as far as I can tell, running: i=0;while true; do echo $i;i=$((i+1));done is, if anything, slower in Terminology. Big caveat: I've just installed kernel 4.1.6 and while I've recompiled/installed the proprietary fglrx AMD driver, I'm not entirely convinced most OpenGL apps work as they should. [s] http://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura http://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura
Shish2k 11y ago
This terminal emulator is also a file browser and media center, so you can save space by removing your old ones of those ;) (tyls is ls with thumbnails, and tycat is like cat except that if you try and cat a movie file to stdout it will display a video player instead of raw bytes)
fit2rule 11y ago
s/terminology/terminator/ then ..
jerf 11y ago
Meh, waste is relative. I run KDE programs, Gnome programs, and a couple of other random hodgepodge things at my personal whimsy, and I'm still only using 2.5GB of the 8 on my system for non-cache work, and over a third of that is just Firefox. I've got 3.5GB literally sitting empty, according to free. I can't even fill the caches. Running another set of depedencies to get me a noticeably better terminal emulator would cost me virtually nothing real. Of course if you're in difference circumstances the answer changes. But there's no particular virtue in using a worse terminal so that more of your RAM sits there with lots of 0s in it.

by hyyypr 11y ago

Flow 11y ago

Tell that to the guy above who uses a Linux VM just to get a speedy terminal. :)

e12e 11y ago
Well, fwiw my local Debian Jessie claimed terminology along with dependencies (that weren't already installed) would claim 24MB. Pretty steep for a terminal. I tried opening one each of Terminology and Sakura[s] -- and as far as I can tell, running: i=0;while true; do echo $i;i=$((i+1));done is, if anything, slower in Terminology. Big caveat: I've just installed kernel 4.1.6 and while I've recompiled/installed the proprietary fglrx AMD driver, I'm not entirely convinced most OpenGL apps work as they should. [s] http://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura http://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura

Shish2k 11y ago

This terminal emulator is also a file browser and media center, so you can save space by removing your old ones of those ;) (tyls is ls with thumbnails, and tycat is like cat except that if you try and cat a movie file to stdout it will display a video player instead of raw bytes)

fit2rule 11y ago

s/terminology/terminator/ then ..

jerf 11y ago

Meh, waste is relative. I run KDE programs, Gnome programs, and a couple of other random hodgepodge things at my personal whimsy, and I'm still only using 2.5GB of the 8 on my system for non-cache work, and over a third of that is just Firefox. I've got 3.5GB literally sitting empty, according to free. I can't even fill the caches. Running another set of depedencies to get me a noticeably better terminal emulator would cost me virtually nothing real. Of course if you're in difference circumstances the answer changes. But there's no particular virtue in using a worse terminal so that more of your RAM sits there with lots of 0s in it.