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Gnome Terminal is the shit. It's totally awesome and other terms seem to copy it, like xfce's terminal. It wraps text just fine for me, has profile switching

Gnome Terminal is the shit. It's totally awesome and other terms seem to copy it, like xfce's terminal. It wraps text just fine for me, has profile switching and lots of other features. Funny you mention that OS X is taking away options and features. That's how I feel about the Gnome team's approach to their desktop. But Gnome has a lot of small programs and widgets that I find useful. Even though I use stock Ubuntu and Unity on my main desktop, I use Xubuntu on all of my other machines. I'm using ubuntu and variants mainly because of the simple and comprehensive package management system. The variants are really cool too. I'm not a fan of the Unity desktop either, but I find that once you get used to it, it's tolerable. It's like a useable version of Windows 8, more of a touch centric interface than a desktop interface. Fortunately all of the other Ubuntu variants have real menus. And the variants have a high degree of compatibility with stock Ubuntu so you can install and use things that are made for stock Ubuntu.

jonalmeida 12y ago
I actually wrote a bit on how to disable the sidebar in Unity so that it doesn't show up, ever[1]. Since you can't sever it entirely for everything else, stopping it from showing up is the best you can do. I did this because I like the Unity top bar integration and indicator panels which has a nice sleek look to it. [1]: http://jonalmeida.com./posts/2014/05/08/ubuntu-14-04-without-unity-launcher/ http://jonalmeida.com./posts/2014/05/08/ubuntu-14-04-without...
to3m 12y ago
GNOME Terminal is missing any way of saving the scrollback buffer to a file or to the clipboard, which is a backwards step from iTerm2. But other than that, it is pretty similar. One substantial difference though (which threw me at first...) as that it's much more reliant on keyboard shortcuts than iTerm2 is. There are a fair few things it can do that don't have any clickable UI. So the man page is worth examining, as is the Keybindings tab of the Preferences dialog - there are a few things you mightn't discover otherwise.

jonalmeida 12y ago

I actually wrote a bit on how to disable the sidebar in Unity so that it doesn't show up, ever[1]. Since you can't sever it entirely for everything else, stopping it from showing up is the best you can do. I did this because I like the Unity top bar integration and indicator panels which has a nice sleek look to it. [1]: http://jonalmeida.com./posts/2014/05/08/ubuntu-14-04-without-unity-launcher/ http://jonalmeida.com./posts/2014/05/08/ubuntu-14-04-without...

to3m 12y ago

GNOME Terminal is missing any way of saving the scrollback buffer to a file or to the clipboard, which is a backwards step from iTerm2. But other than that, it is pretty similar. One substantial difference though (which threw me at first...) as that it's much more reliant on keyboard shortcuts than iTerm2 is. There are a fair few things it can do that don't have any clickable UI. So the man page is worth examining, as is the Keybindings tab of the Preferences dialog - there are a few things you mightn't discover otherwise.