Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

[pplaw <pplaw@pcisys.net>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:17:11PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> Greetings folks;
> 
> I cannot find an X terminal Emulator I like. I am hoping someone out
> there can point me in the right direction. (CC's on replies would be
> nice, BTW.)
> 
> xterm doesn't let home/end work.
> aterm doesn't let home/end work.
> Eterm doesn't let home/end work.
> wterm doesn't let the numeric keypad work.
> 
> rxvt (in the five minutes I have played with it during the preperation
> of this email) lets both of keypad and home/end work, but boy I like the
> transparency options of some of the other terminal emulators... (nothing
> quite like cheesing off Windows users by having the sexiest desktop. :)
> 
> Am I missing any?

rxvt can achieve "transparency."  i just use the
command:

rxvt-xpm -tr

and for, say, a yellow foreground:

rxvt-xpm -fg yellow -tr

(season to taste...  i, too, like having transparency,
which looks a heck of a lot better than that
windows shi*.  ...ah, the beauty of linux...)

hth.

bentley taylor

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