Differences between terminals

Dark_Helmet · 02-26-2003, 06:16 PM

I've always wondered, what is the difference between the types of terminals. Specifically, in Red Hat 8.0, there are at least three: rxvt, xterm, gnome-term, and I'm sure others. Aside from the obvious (gnome-term requiring gnome), all are capable of handling my commands. So that leads me to believe the difference is subtle. Perhaps each was originally designed for a specific purpose?

neo77777 · 02-26-2003, 06:34 PM

Since that Gnome is a resource hug gnome-term inhibits all the properties of GNOME application - nice look, more swap memory usage; xterm is a parent of gnome-term which is less hungry on system resources, and now rxvt is the least resource hungry application which emulates vt102 terminals (most UNIX's are vt102 "compatible").

2damncommon · 02-26-2003, 07:17 PM

You just need to try them to see the differences.
I like the KDE Konsole. Tried the Gnome multi-terminal, but didn't like it as much.
You can go for the real thing with 'CTRL-ALT-(F1-F6)'
'CTRL-ALT-F7' should return you to Xwindows.
These can vary between distros.
For example, Knoppix makes less "terminals" available.
Good Luck.