From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 20:29:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAB11065676 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 20:29:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F02A8FC0A for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 20:29:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id o76KClSa006931; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:12:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id o76KCl6M006923; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:12:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:12:47 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100806201247.GA6715@saltmine.radix.net> References: <4C5BC3DB.4080406@gmail.com> <20100806092610.GA14470@slackbox.erewhon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100806092610.GA14470@slackbox.erewhon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Cc: Roland Smith Subject: Re: Good Terminal for X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:29:01 -0000 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:26:10AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: > >=20 > > I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome=20 > > libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both ar= e=20 > > nice) > >=20 > > xterm does display some things correctly (like sysinstall type command= =20 > > line GUIs). >=20 > Try x11/rxvt-unicode. It doesn't require Gnome nor KDE libraries, and it = does > handle unicode well. It's a lot lighter than xterm. And it has transparan= cy or > backgrounds if you like that. It's not "a lot lighter" - I made a table recently to investigate. See http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_rxvt --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFMXGy5tIqByHxlDocRAp/sAJ4onWGOguhonYBTfDLFjbNzab/MQQCdHacD vdAihggT5hTcsBQ2Sm5Andg= =QFti -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--