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Offline vinnie

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What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« on: February 21, 2011, 08:04:26 PM »
I chose lilyterm because it has easier shortcuts to the tab, but I don't know if there better on the Repository.

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2011, 01:27:37 AM »
urxvt
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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2011, 03:09:54 AM »
One of my main problems is to enlarge the font, I'm trying urxvt but I didn't find very different from aterm on this front.

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2011, 04:17:10 AM »
One of my main problems is to enlarge the font, I'm trying urxvt but I didn't find very different from aterm on this front.


You didn't tell in the starting post why are you looking for a terminal. Quote from WIKIPEDIA:

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Rxvt-unicode, commonly known as urxvt, is a color VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System. It was written by Marc Lehmann, who forked it from rxvt in November 2003. Stability, internationalization and support for Unicode is its primary focus, as well as the capability to display different fonts and locales simultaneously.
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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2011, 08:23:13 AM »
I checked to prevent this misunderstanding but has happened.
I looked at the descriptions of evilvte and lilyterm:
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evilvte: VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator
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LilyTerm: A light, but functional terminal emulator

sorry but I do not know the terminology too specific

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2011, 07:55:21 AM »
Vinnie--
One way to have a nice, big font is is to use crtl-alt-F1 and drop out of Xwindows altogether. Then use ctrl-alt-F2 to get back to your desktop. Works great for some purposes.

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2011, 09:37:56 AM »
ok, I have three obstacles that prevent me from adopting this solution:
font is still small
e17 crash (really do not reopen, but not crash)
and if I start from console graphics programs? (eg sudo fluff)

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2011, 12:27:27 PM »
For starting graphical apps from console you could export TERM=:0; you may also put this into your .profile.

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2011, 10:41:03 AM »
HI:
Does somebody know of a terminal emulater which allows me to copy from and paste to?

In some cases I would like to copy inputs/outputs from the command line over into a text editor.

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2011, 10:44:19 AM »
select text, paste with middle mouse button.

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2011, 11:10:08 AM »
this does not work with my terminal in Tiny Core 3.5
by the way - which TE is the one in TC?

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2011, 11:32:00 AM »
It works in mine.
A ps should show you that it is aterm.

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2011, 12:08:53 PM »
"Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." Niklaus Wirth - A Plea for Lean Software (1995)

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2011, 05:14:39 AM »
Within Linux world there are basically two camps - the dominant one tends to be the CLI brigade. These folks are accustomed to doing most of their computing tasks via the CLI - which means they are very keyboard-centric. The other camp - growing in size as more folk migrate from MS Windows - are the GUI brigade. They do much of their computing with a mouse and are instinctively mouse-centric [and maybe keyboard-phobic too].

What the CLI brigade fail frequently to understand is the concerns of the GUI brigade. In Linux forums the terminal emulator question is a classic example of this. The CLI brigade's response to such questions are therefore frequently bemused often unhelpful. So for the GUI brigade here is the full monty.

For the CLI brigade most of the light-weight default emulators will suffice - aterm, rxvt, urxvt, etc. They have basic functionality and most of what they want to accomplish can be achieved via keystrokes. They also don't mind too much if they have an ugly terminal. Functionality is what counts to the CLI folk bless 'em.

For the GUI brigade who want familiar mouse functionality such as right-click context menu, customisability such as font change, background colour, transparency, cut-and-paste via the context menu, then one or several of the following:

Lxterminal, Sakura, Evilvte, gnome-terminal, Terminal [xfce] all offer such functionality.

Cautionary Note: The more functional your emulator the more dependencies it will pull in depending on your setup. There is a price to pay for that prettiness!

Crunchbang Linux now use Terminator as their default - based on gnome-terminal - which has some interesting functionality such as multiple terminals open in a grid etc. It's a sort of terminal emulator Shangi-la...

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Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2011, 06:23:10 AM »
nice the terminal, when I put java i try it