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Gnome Terminal because of its text smoothing (and because it adheres to a set of human interface guidelines).

• antileet 17y ago
  I used to use Gnome-terminal for the same reason, but it doesn't behave great with screen sometimes, and has some other small issues. I'd recommend mrxvt, a superset of rxvt. It's lighter, has support for tabs, fonts, transparency, etc. http://code.google.com/p/mrxvt/wiki/Main http://code.google.com/p/mrxvt/wiki/Main
  • glymor 17y ago
    Are you talking about the backspace issue? There are some old patches from ubuntu that show how to fix it (though they they don't seem to use them themselves anymore): https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/vte/+bug/29787/comments/32 https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/vte/+bug/29787/com... rxvt and friends gave me problems using truetype fonts. They have their own code for calculating widths which gives the wrong answer even when it's monospaced. I wish there were more terminals. It may seem like there's a lot but they are derived from a fairly small number of roots and they inherit all of the bizarre behaviour.
• glymor 17y ago
  For those that don't run gnome you can run vte directly, just download the source and compile the demo app.
  • thingie 17y ago
    There are tons of vte based terminals. Terminal of xfce, for example, which is quite "lightweight".
    • glymor 17y ago
      I don't have xfce installed either. The sample app is perfectly complete, you don't need a GUI for a terminal.
• brtzsnr 17y ago
  I use 'terminator' a very nice terminal based on Gnome Terminal. If you like GT definitely you should try terminator as well.