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/

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