Which terminal emulator do you all use
 

I used urxvt/rxvt-unicode for many years, but I'm finally going to stop using it because its font rendering is off (it kerns wrong). I'm switching over to XTerm, which actually has everything I need (256 colors, Unicode support for at least European languages, Fontconfig support, etc). I don't need transparency (it doesn't work well with the Solarized color scheme I'm using).

Which terminal emulator do you all use?

aterm

Terminal 0.4.8 for Xfce 4.10.

Terminal 0.4.8 / Xfce 4.8.

Terminal-0.4.8 as primary and xterm.

rxvt

xterm, with tmux whenever I need multiple sessions without spawning multiple xterms.

Roxterm

Terminator and yakuake

Marcel

xterm with these resource settings:

I'm glad you started this thread. I'm curious myself.

For a long time I used sakura. A few months ago I switched to rxvt-unicode. It was actually after I tried .Xdefaults from your website. Recently, however, I've been thinking of switching to xterm myself - for totally different reasons, though. I'm trying to cut down on installing 3rd party packages where perfectly functional software exists in the stock Slackware.

Konsole

Terminator

Konsole for me too, I'm a tab addict so xterm isn't really an option and I figure what the hell, I'm already using KDE anyway.

This made me thinking why I use Roxterm in the first place and I got no other reasons then that I am used to it from my Debian times (I always started with minimal installs, so no default terminal already installed. Maybe I switch to Xterm to, if it supports 256 colors and Unicode.

Yeah, old habits die hard:)

A quick google and check of my Slackware installation shows that xterm does support Unicode (uxterm - a wrapper around xterm) and 256 colors (enabled by default in Slackware):

Used rxvt-u for the longest time. Switching to Terminator as rxvt-u was not really responding well in Slackware which I began to use not long ago.

yakuake in KDE, but now rxvt-unicode in i3 wm

Until early this year I used konsole mostly - for the tabs.

When trying to figure out how to keep the familiar tabs in a KDE4 world someone here on LQ pointed me to tmux...

Now it is urxvt with tmux and loving it!

Any sites with detailed descriptions how to configure Xterm and which options are available, especially how to setup a nice font (I prefer Monospace in 8 pt)? The default font is quite ugly and even in some cases up to unreadable.

Konsole, because of tabs and easy configuration of colour schemes, including Solarized, which I use sometimes. Most of the time, however, I just set up a grey background with black font colour. I find this friendlier to the eye for long sessions, and the output of is completely readable, including the dark blue directory entries, which are hardly readable on a black background, and light green entries for executable files, which are hard to read on a white background.

gargamel

I'm using qterminal, before I switched to qterminal I used konsole but have no longer KDE running.

Markus

I use gnome-terminal, konsole & xterm,... in probably equal proportions...

And, by the way, xterm DOES support translucency... It's just not easily set.

rxvt

aterm

konsole has always been my favorite. And gnome-terminal's not bad either.

urxvt and xterm about equally.

xterm

As far as changing the fonts (I use Terminus), I just pass them to xterm via the '-fn' option:
xlsfonts will show you a list of fonts you can use.

You can also hold down the control key and click the right mouse button to bring up a menu that allows you to resize the font.

Konsole, always been there since I use KDE, the tabs are great, and I like the overall layout and appearance.

Yakuake is my favorite, and Terminal while on XFCE. Terminator seems interesting, since it has logging facility. I will give it a try.

Konsole mostly, xterm sometimes. Whatever is default with other DE/WMs.
Liberation mono font.

xterm, as it works well for what I do, and maybe out of laziness to try another one. Alt+F1 in Fluxbox to launch one without any customization.

yakuake ;D

lxterminal

I've been using Konsole from KDE for as long as I remember. Love it for tabs and the ability to do most of the tasks (like creating/moving/closing tabs) using keyboard. Have Linux color scheme set up with DejaVu Sans Mono font (bold disabled).

I'd just thought I'd mention, while I use Konsole a lot. I also frequently log out back to the console or Ctrl-Alt F# to a another.

Same here.

I primarily use Terminal of XFCE since it's very stable and included by default. Besides, I really like Terminator with its "tile" arrangement and use it occasionally. However, Terminator still has crash issue in some use cases, so it's not stable enough to become my main emulator.

Regarding xterm, maybe it does not have full Unicode support (only shows a subset of Chinese characters here).

Bits plucked from here there and everywhere so no single site.

I use Monospace in 9 if that's any help - I've tried to clone Terminal as much as possible, I like the look but not the overhead.

Attached is my .Xresources

xterm started with the command:

where 9x15int is defined in fonts.alias from /usr/share/fonts/misc as:

it fits perfectly my Window Maker desktop.

Thanks for that, successfully changed to Xterm and it looks like my old Roxterm config now, except the missing transparency, but that is something I can live with. In fact, Xterm is much lighter on CPU usage when scrolling large amounts of text than Roxterm.

That's what I use.

Thanks for that again!

I have cobbled one together myself over time, but yours is more complete and comprehensive - it just replaced (most of) my own.

Konsole, but my first love was Eterm

xfce4-terminal 0.4.8

I mostly use Terminal in non-KDE environments and Konsole in KDE. Usually with tmux.

I've never really found a need to look into other programs such as xterm/rxvt as they seem to do mostly the same job but require a great deal more tweaking..

I decided to switch to (Xfce 4.10's) Terminal.

256 colors out of the box: CHECK

Works with Source Code Pro: CHECK

Displays every character in Quickbrown.txt (out of the box, on Slackware 14.0) while the font is set to Source Code Pro: CHECK (XTerm can't do this).

Kerns fonts properly: CHECK (rxvt-unicode messes this up)

Works with the Solarized color scheme: CHECK

Thanks to all who recommended it.

xfce-terminal. Closest thing to the Bash Shell anyway.

Huh? All these terminal emulators use the shell that is your default shell. If your default shell is Bash then every terminal emulator is the closest thing to Bash, just because it actually is Bash.
But who uses Bash anyways? ;):D