Sorry about forwarded message, but I noticed I sent to bad address.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zsolt Udvari <[email protected]> Date: 2011/9/7 Subject: Re: [off-topic] A good terminal emulator for tiling WMs? To: Daniel Martí <[email protected]> Maybe you can try termit [1]. Zsolt [1] http://wiki.github.com/nonstop/termit/ 2011/9/6 Daniel Martí <[email protected]>: > If urxvt a.k.a. rxvt-unicide is that good, it should have some option to > suit our needs. > > Has any of you tried lxterminal yet? I've been using it because it is basic > and does all I need. It might not have that problem. > > Renato Botelho <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I don't know if you guys suffer as much as I do having terminal >> > emulators that don't handle resizing very well. I think this is a >> > pretty big deal for tiling window managers users, so I think most of >> > you must have a good solution, hence, I'm asking here. >> > >> > Well, the problem with xterm (my terminal of choice) is that when its >> > size shrinks it loses all the info outside its boundaries, so if you >> > expand it again, there will be a lot of empty space and all the info >> > there will be gone. >> > Urxvt does indeed keep the info, but it does so (as far as I could >> > find) by breaking the lines and redrawing itself accordingly, making >> > it all look rambled (IMHO). >> > Some oth >> er >> terminals, like sakura, do keep the info and do not ramble >> > everything, but I couldn't find a way to scroll horizontaly. >> > >> > So, considering all this, what terminal emulator do you recommend? Did >> > I miss any feature in one of those that I mentioned? >> >> Hello, >> >> I had similar problems with xterm, gave up and moved to urxvt, it has >> the issue you described but it's fine for me until i find a better >> solution. >> >> AFAIR, eterm is the one that worked fine when i did some tests, i just >> didn't move to it because i'm using url-select plugin for urxvt and it is >> really useful for me. I'm still looking for a better terminal that have a >> similar feature. >> >> Try eterm and let us know if it is an option for you. >> >> Best Regards >> -- >> Renato Botelho >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
