Looking for a simple and lightweight terminal, I found urxvt.
xvt and rxvt don’t support Unicode characters. You have to use urxvt :
aptitude install rxvt-unicode
Not that I find xterm too slow for my use. My “geek curiosity” took over. I don’t like terminal tabs but instead open plenty of different terminal windows. urxvt could certainly do the job.
Then you can customize urxvt using the ~/.Xdefaults file :
vi ~/.Xdefaults Rxvt*scrollBar: False Rxvt*background: black Rxvt*foreground: white Rxvt*geometry: 110x35
The geometry I use allow me to open 4 terminal windows in my screen.
Note: you can also put parameters in ~/.Xresources but you’ll have to restart X or use the xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources command to load parameters.
I also suggest you the use of a keyboard shortcut to start your terminals. In Gnome :
- Set your default terminal in System > Preferences > Prefered Applications
- Then in System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts, set the Start Terminal entry. I use Alt+X.
References :
LANG=C aptitude search ~dterminal | grep -i "terminal\|emulator" | less- http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urxvt
- http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
- http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Customizing_your_xterm