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Date:      Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:26:10 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Depo Catcher <depocatcher@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good Terminal for X?
Message-ID:  <20100806092610.GA14470@slackbox.erewhon.net>
In-Reply-To: <4C5BC3DB.4080406@gmail.com>

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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.
 
Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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