Re:Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
by pwmanagerdied on Sunday September 06, 2009 @07:42AM
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Jesus, 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.
* 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.