Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:53:35 +0400 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good Terminal for X? Message-ID: <86d3tveo00.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100806153733.GB90463@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> (Chip Camden's message of "Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:37:33 -0700") References: <4C5BC3DB.4080406@gmail.com> <20100806092610.GA14470@slackbox.erewhon.net> <20100806153733.GB90463@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> writes: > Quoth Roland Smith on Friday, 06 August 2010: >> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: >> > >> > I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome >> > libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are >> > nice) >> > >> > xterm does display some things correctly (like sysinstall type command >> > line GUIs). >> >> 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 transparancy or >> backgrounds if you like that. > > On the subject of unicode, can anyone recommend a good terminal font that > includes all (or most) unicode characters? If I'm not mistaken unicode coverage can be achieved by combining several fonts using fontconfig[1]. The good start would be to combine DejaVu Sans Mono with some CJK font of your choice. [1] This is where xterm sucks, it can only use normal + double-width font.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?86d3tveo00.fsf>