On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 04:21:50PM -0300, Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti 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 other 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? > > Thanks in advance! > > PS: I do care about CJK support, and a "find" feature would be nice > (like the one of terminator's, the java one), and being able to use a > customized colorscheme would be awesome!
Not exactly a terminal emulator... but I gave up GNU screen in favor tmux[1] because screen suffered resizing issues as well. Now that I made the switch tmux has given me even more reasons to stay:) -- Koen [1]: http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
