Mother of all xterms?

[Chris Linstid]

I've hopped around from terminal to terminal on Linux for years and I
honestly haven't found one as feature-filled as iterm2 on OS X.

My thoughts so far:

*(u)xterm*: Fast, settings are both a blessing and curse since they're all
in .Xdefaults/.Xresources, so I can save them in a git repo somewhere and
restore them when I want to. I usually end up back here if I get fed up
with another terminal but the settings can be a little cryptic.

*(u)rxvt*: See xterm, but with a smaller user base.

*gnome-terminal*: This is my primary at this point, mainly because its
settings are relatively easy to deal with and I like being able to right
click on a URL (mostly from IRC) and open it and tabs come in handy.

*XFCE Terminal*: Since I tend to use XFCE a lot, I've tried XFCE's
terminal, but it mostly seems like a lesser featured version of
gnome-terminal. The only upside is that it seems a bit quicker than
gnome-terminal.

*konsole*: I'm usually in XFCE or gnome-shell/cinnamon, so I tend to stick
to gtk2/3 apps if I can. Beyond that, it's at about the same level
feature-wise with gnome-terminal.

*terminator*: I like the split screen features and I used it as my primary
for a while, but it's a bit of a memory hog and very crashy.

*Eterm*: Apart from some silly graphical bells and whistles, I see little
to no advantage over xterm.

I've tried using *screen* and *tmux* inside another terminal to get some
extra features. Tmux looks especially promising with both horizontal and
vertical window pane splits, but they both interfere with how I use vim
(which is usually what I'm in if I'm in a terminal). The X11 mouse events
don't always work and I've never been able to get my color schemes to work
properly.

I gave terminology a quick try and it didn't draw vim properly (the status
bar wasn't displayed) and the font was rendered without anti-aliasing
(which is pretty bad on non-bitmap fixed-width fonts). Obviously it's a
work in progress, so it will be interesting to see what it's like in
another few months.

Xiki is intriguing. I'll have to give that a try.

     - Chris
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