What is your favorite terminal emulator?

Submitted by kamaraju on Sat 27 May 2006

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gnome-terminal  <-> 27%221 votes
konsole  <-> 28%234 votes
mrxvt  <-> 2%20 votes
multi-gnome-terminal  <-> 1%14 votes
rxvt  <-> 6%49 votes
xterm  <-> 24%197 votes
other (please leave a comment as to what it is)  <-> 9%75 votes
Total 810 votes

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#1
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (71.245.xx.xx) on Sat 27 May 2006 at 15:39
Xvt - it's the lightest terminal I know of. Less features than rxvt, but very nice on old machines.

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#2
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (67.185.xx.xx) on Sat 27 May 2006 at 17:31
Terminal.app.

:)

gnome-terminal on a deb box

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#3
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (81.174.xx.xx) on Sat 27 May 2006 at 18:13
rxvt-unicode. It has:

- decent unicode support
- scrollbuffer search (with perl reg exps)
- client/daemon pair
- automatic url underlining
- all kinds of fancy selection goodness thanks to Embedded perl

and it's still lightweight!

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#23
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by yaarg (62.49.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 15:03
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Opps that was me.

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#39
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by yaarg (81.174.xx.xx) on Thu 1 Jun 2006 at 21:12
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Opps that was me, forgot to login.

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#4
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (201.27.xx.xx) on Sat 27 May 2006 at 22:34
Eterm has been around for years and it still rocks indeed.

fcorrea

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#5
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (213.224.xx.xx) on Sun 28 May 2006 at 04:30
mrxvt, but voted konsole as I only liked mrxvt because it can behave like konsole :p.

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#6
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (84.60.xx.xx) on Sun 28 May 2006 at 05:02
aterm :)

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#36
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by mar (89.102.xx.xx) on Wed 31 May 2006 at 20:06
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yes! :)

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#44
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by th0re (83.243.xx.xx) on Fri 2 Jun 2006 at 20:07
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Yepp!

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th0re

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#7
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by lykwydchykyn (12.220.xx.xx) on Sun 28 May 2006 at 05:03
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Konsole,usually via yakuake, though I really have no opinion when it comes to features, just look really. Yakuake is really fun, since I have to switch between GUI and terminal often; just hit f12 and a terminal drops down.

Other than finesse I don't really know what makes one terminal emulator better than another, though I suppose there are things...

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#10
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by ajt (84.12.xx.xx) on Sun 28 May 2006 at 13:26
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Ditto.

It seems trivial and silly, but it is actually useful.

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Adam

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#14
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Steve (62.30.xx.xx) on Sun 28 May 2006 at 20:06
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Wow, that is fun!

I've not previously heard of that, but it is very very cool.

Not handy enough to use full time, because I'm in the habit of having two or more terminals open simultaneously so I can copy and paste between them, but still very neat.

Steve

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#30
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by ajt (84.12.xx.xx) on Tue 30 May 2006 at 21:10
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If Qt/KDE isn't your thing, then have a look at Tilda: http://tilda.sourceforge.net/ the GTK/Gnome version. Both are in Debian, so easy to install. There are othes too in the same genre too.

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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam

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#8
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (85.99.xx.xx) on Sun 28 May 2006 at 10:12
urxvt with it's glorious XFT fonts. If you work constantly with 3-4 terminals open, XFT will make your eyes happy.

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#9
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (213.84.xx.xx) on Sun 28 May 2006 at 10:30
I like Yakuake, it's a tabbed console program that hides when started, and shows (it drops down from the top of the screen) when F12 is pressed.

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#11
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (213.224.xx.xx) on Sun 28 May 2006 at 14:15
aterm, always with screen ...

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#28
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by felix_stegerman (83.162.xx.xx) on Tue 30 May 2006 at 01:24
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xterm, always with screen ...


- Felix

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#12
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (150.203.xx.xx) on Sun 28 May 2006 at 14:30
Yakuake. I access terminals all the time, this one lets me switch instantly between the terminal and whatever else I'm doing. And I don't have to worry about which KDE desktop I left it on.

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#13
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by lykwydchykyn (12.220.xx.xx) on Sun 28 May 2006 at 15:50
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Wow, I didn't realize so many others used yakuake. Try running it with xdesktopwaves for a calming visual effect. :)

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#15
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (87.116.xx.xx) on Sun 28 May 2006 at 20:21
I think Eterm is the best choise for me:)

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#16
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (210.253.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 00:40
I am using MLterm.

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#17
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (83.145.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 09:23
aterm works for me

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#18
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (193.11.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 11:00
rxvt with unicode support is the only terminal that works full out for me...
Konsole or gnome-terminal tend to mess upp characters and not understand how I want to mix charsets, in addition to lack real transparency support... ;)

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#19
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (193.6.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 11:41
Aterm, fullscreen, no window decoration, transparent...

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#20
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (217.71.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 12:31
iTerm;) I work with OSX;)

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#43
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (201.27.xx.xx) on Fri 2 Jun 2006 at 18:22
iTerm sucks and is to much slow.

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#21
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (81.169.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 13:23
ATERM ;D

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#22
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (82.236.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 13:58
yakuake :)

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#24
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (200.16.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 16:35
mrxvt is multiconsole as konsole or mgt but extremely fast!!

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#25
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by reluctant (65.78.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 18:04
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aterm - because it's Really light weight. htop: 
PID USER     PRI  NI  VIRT   RES   SHR S CPU% MEM%   TIME+  Command
3283 root      16   0  3708  2040  3096 S  0.0  0.4  0:00.55 aterm -tn xterm -trsb -rv -sl 5000
Try it and see!

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#26
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (80.35.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 19:36
My favorite terminal emulator? Ctrl + Alt + F2.

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#27
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by deadcat (69.110.xx.xx) on Mon 29 May 2006 at 19:56
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i think rxvt-unicode is the best in terms of features and its light-weight, but i use xterm and screen since all my dot files are configured for these 2, personally gnome-terminal, konsole, aterm sucks. aterm cant even do xft fonts.
please dont reply to this comment, this is MY opinion only (=

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#29
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (83.58.xx.xx) on Tue 30 May 2006 at 01:56
Yakuake is a very practical one!

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#31
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by askrieger (209.6.xx.xx) on Tue 30 May 2006 at 21:11
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I like konsole, straight with no yakuake. I set it up with 120 columns by 45 lines on KDE desktop 1 and just leave it there from one reboot to another. That way a single click takes me to the terminal.

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#32
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (82.181.xx.xx) on Tue 30 May 2006 at 23:00
rxvt-unicode-lite

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#33
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (62.242.xx.xx) on Wed 31 May 2006 at 10:44
Terminal.app + ssh

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#34
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (216.52.xx.xx) on Wed 31 May 2006 at 16:22
urxvtc using urxvtd.

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#35
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (87.208.xx.xx) on Wed 31 May 2006 at 18:59
I use yakuake. It drops down from the top once I press F12 so it never gets in my way...

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#37
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (71.224.xx.xx) on Thu 1 Jun 2006 at 03:05
Eterm. Hands down.

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#38
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Area (84.176.xx.xx) on Thu 1 Jun 2006 at 11:59
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Eterm !

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#40
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (199.102.xx.xx) on Fri 2 Jun 2006 at 14:26
Powershell. It has tabs and when used with screen I can sort the machines I'm working on into a two dimensional array (Web servers on one tab, app servers on another, database servers on a third, etc.).

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#41
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (86.108.xx.xx) on Fri 2 Jun 2006 at 15:19
mlterm ;)

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#42
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (62.254.xx.xx) on Fri 2 Jun 2006 at 18:20
Eterm :D ..
- CarpeDiem

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#45
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (217.13.xx.xx) on Fri 2 Jun 2006 at 23:08
aterm.
transparency gives me a boner.

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#46
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (80.78.xx.xx) on Sat 3 Jun 2006 at 09:44
Eterm pwnz!

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#47
Re: What is your favorite terminal emulator?
Posted by Anonymous (193.170.xx.xx) on Sat 3 Jun 2006 at 12:58
Eterm is most convenient for me and hast the most beautiful font "Fixed" which was eradicated from GNOME font dialogs. I personally regret this.

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