well, which one is the best Jow Forums?
Terminal emulators
Kayden Rogers
James Brooks
xterm, it just works and is always available. (same reason I like vi) If I need a dropdown terminal I use tilda.
Elijah Richardson
>xterm
>xterm is bloated and unmaintainable. Here’s an excerpt from the README:
>................Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
>This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of
>the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage.
>Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014
>subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to
>clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do.
>Needless to say things have not changed, it’s still ugly. It has over 65K lines of code and emulates obscure and obsolete terminals you will never need.
>The popular alternative, rxvt has only 32K lines of code. This is just too much for something as simple as a terminal emulator; it’s yet another example of code complexity.
>Terminal emulation doesn’t need to be so complex.
Aiden Fisher
all of them suck
xterm implements more things than urxvt but is slow, shitty and doesn't have text rewrap
Thomas Lopez
Cool Retro Term
Jose Long
Xterm has the lowest latency
I love that retarded project
Asher Johnson
rxvt/urxvt period
/thread
Isaac Murphy
st. IT just works. rxvt = bloat, xterm = double bloat
Juan Powell
lwn.net
st stands for shitty terminal
Jaxson Cook
That's not from the xterm README. That's a suckless blurb for st.
Andrew Perry
back in my day we had 100+ms latency and we liked it
Adam Campbell
>terminal autism
Jaxson Barnes
I thought this until I tried kitty.
Now it's kitty
Austin Brooks
Konsole!
Carter Diaz
this
Benjamin Garcia
Terminator
Alexander James
this
William Jackson
term stands for terminal cancer
Bentley Robinson
This.
Luis Jackson
emacs's ansi-term mode for programs that require ncurses, shell-mode otherwise.
Wyatt Hughes
XTerm 4ever. It never betrayed me and never will.
Zachary Russell
I wish i could go back to konsole, but keyboard-select in urxvt is just too comfy.
Is there any other terminal that lets you select text with keyboard instead of mouse like rxvt does?
Noah Ward
Gabriel Powell
kitty
Jonathan Hall
What is this used for?
Nicholas Perez
Ryder Butler
screenfetch mostly
Sometimes neofetch
Jeremiah Bennett
Cool retro term
Nathaniel Cook
>written in java
>eats up your cpu and ram like mad
Jose Brown
Just install linux shit head
Camden Brooks
>xterm
>XTERM
>FUCIOKING XTERM
really negroe?
Luis Johnson
you realize smaller is better right?
Luis Nguyen
xterm
Thomas Myers
rxvt-unicode everyday, for everything
Jonathan Carter
I like terminology
Lincoln Phillips
Kitty is the only choice.
>Indian software quality
>GPU accelerated
>supports link hints
>supports tabs and splits
>supports ligatures
Lucas Turner
and st is not so small
Charles Bennett
proofs
Gabriel Powell
the fucking numbers
Grayson Garcia
Is st bloated????
Jace Peterson
>takes about 8 seconds to open
Connor Kelly
what you feebleminded subhumans call bloat--I call power. st may be "minimal" (primitive) but it isn't powerful and it sure as hell isn't performant.
Robert Jenkins
xfce4-terminal
Honestly it's the only terminal that it feels comfortable and fast
xterm feels slow and ugly, urxvt and similar are even worse
>it's libvte based
Unlike gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal doesn't have the gnome retardation
I like how it rewraps the text when changing zoom level or changing window size
libvte sucks in a lot of ways, mostly because it saves scrollback buffers on disk
>seclists.org
but on the other hand I don't have a better solution to suggest and you can always turn of scrollback completely to mitigate this issue
I don't though because I can't use less, head and tail all the time
Christopher Brown
Software design is not a game of code golf. The simplest solution is not always the most elegant or efficient.
John King
>lwn.net
Nice research
I use GVim because I feel latency when using Vim inside an x-terminal
This research confirms it
>just use xterm
Nope sorry, xterm default fonts are butt ugly and unreadable
Once you try to change them to something more readable it becomes slow as molasses
It's funny how ricers prefer to use Vim inside a terminal emulator because
>muh speed
>muh nobloat
when in fact this makes it more bloated and the only reason they do it is because it makes them feel like hackers
GVim + GTK+2 all the way
Luke Wright
Unironically gnome-terminal.
I don't even use gnome.
Kayden Nguyen
you can make konsole do whatever the fuck you want user
Justin Carter
Before gnome-terminal, I used urxvt with the "5x7" builtin X unicode font. I tried st and enjoyed it but the patching to configure thing was just too annoying. I like settings.
Ian Barnes
>FROM THE README
Are you fucking daft
Kayden Martinez
you fuckers, kittt is beautiful, but can't handle otf fonts bold and shit, and since my favorite font droidsans mono nerd font is otf, i can't use it with kitten, common even set handles it like a champ, also the url hints detection is shit, i have a script on st that handles urls much better.
Joshua Flores
>xterm feels slow
that's ironic considering vte based terminals are the ones with the worst latency
David Rogers
What is the difference between a terminal and a regular monitor?
Elijah Butler
I know that some of you will hate me.
but emacs (ansi-term or eshell) is nice and just work
William White
terminal is a device that is basically a hardware remote "desktop" where you type in shit and it gets send to the remote machine. Then you get results back. The terminal only handles sending and receiving commands. Monitor can display graphics from local GPU. Terminal doesn't use GPU. It handles text displaying and sending commands on hardware level. Tldr, it's an ssh box.
Cameron Morales
I've used gnome-terminal, xterm and rxvt.
>What's the difference between them?
Gnome doesn't have a Xresources file, instead it has gui options to customize your terminal. Honestly, I don't give a fuck about gui so it doesn't really matter to me.
Xterm and rxvt are pretty alike and lightweight.
>Which one do you use nowadays?
Nowadays I use rxvt but I don't think it is any better or worse than the others.
Note: Xresources is a text file that contains all the visual settings of your terminal.
Evan Harris
it's still faster than suckmuch terminal
Jaxson Clark
>terminal emulator
>TERMINAL
>FUCKING
>EMULATOR
what kind of retard named it that way? They aren't emulating shit, you can work with files in you're /home folder, hell, even in /root
Nolan Hernandez
Terminal.app :^)
Jack James
urxvt is the best terminal overall, and the most lightweight among the non-autistic ones that offer complete functionality.
Isaiah Richardson
t. dicklet
Liam Gutierrez
95% chance of bait, however..
Look up what a teletype is. That's what tty stands for, and that's what's being emulated.
Andrew Wilson
Logan Myers
>Terminator
Only smart motherfucker in this thread. Everything else in punch card tier.
Jose Harris
>xfce4-terminal
>gnome-terminal.
LXTerminal is lighter and similar to these, and good enough
Jack Jenkins
>I don't think you understand how greentext works, m8
Caleb Cooper
Thank you fren!
Carson Bell
rxvt-unicode
Jeremiah Lewis
xfce4-terminal