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I dunno, I use xterm. It's fast, feature-rich, and every minute detail is configurable. I think gnome-terminal is based on vte, which wasn't affected. I have
by taviso 6y ago
I dunno, I use xterm. It's fast, feature-rich, and every minute detail is configurable.
I think gnome-terminal is based on vte, which wasn't affected.
I have no clue about Konsole.
- cozzyd 6y agoWhat are some features xterm has that I'm missing out by using gnome-terminal? Not doubting, just ignorant.
- taviso 6y agoOff the top of my head, two features I don't think gnome-terminal can do: sixels, this is a terminal graphics format. You could use them to have thumbnails in ls output, or view image attachments in mutt. Tektronix mode, which is like a line-drawing mode - gnuplot supports it, so you can have really nice looking graphs and plots. There are just little quality of life improvements, like being able to dump the screen in html format, preserving colors and attributes, or easy one-click access to the alternate screen buffer. It's also easy to automate. You can use something like xtermcontrol to easily adjust anything from a script. Fonts, window size and position, etc. You can have custom key and mouse bindings too, and these are really powerful, but I'll concede the configuration format is arcane :-)
- cozzyd 6y agosixels does look really useful! Fortunately it looks like vte will have it available soon: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/253 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/253