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Could someone explain the interest/value of this post to me? I'm not familiar with anything that would significantly distinguish them.
by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
Could someone explain the interest/value of this post to me? I'm not familiar with anything that would significantly distinguish them.
- pyre 17y ago* Unicode support * Transparency/Pseudo-transparency support * Interactions with other systems and their termcap/terminfo files. * Interaction with GNU screen (iirc, the 'auto-detect' feature of XFCE4-Terminal for which backspace sequence to send fails for me currently when using screen. I have to force it to use ^H as backspace) * Support for more than just Type-1 fonts. * How does the scrollback buffer work? gnome-terminal SUCKS when a wall of text hits the screen, while rxvt-unicode blows through it like nothing. ... There are many other things that could be brought up in relation to these (terminal emulators). For instance, rxvt-unicode has a powerful Perl API, and there are many modules that do things like (for instance) implement simple tabs for a rxvt-unicode window.
- pwmanagerdied 17y agoJesus, I'd been using gnome-terminal sine I switched over to Linux full-time a few months ago. I assumed that the reason it was sluggish was because I'm running it on an old machine. I just installed rxvt-unicode after re-reading your post, and even after enabling a background image for no good reason it blows gnome-terminal away. Thanks a lot, this is something worth knowing.
- Sapient 17y agoI managed to get quite a few excellent tips out of this discussion. I found a far less buggy terminal, and discovered a feature of Windows I didnt know existed. Seems like a good deal to me...