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Re:Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ? by antileet on Sunday August 30, 2009 @01:59AM (#794159)
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

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Re:Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ? by glymor on Sunday August 30, 2009 @04:20AM (#794240)
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/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.

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