Comments | appaji: multi-aterm, x-terminal-emulator alternatives and xfterm4

appaji

multi-aterm, x-terminal-emulator alternatives and xfterm4

Jun 23, 2005 01:48

Debian has a concept of alternatives, where a capability is given a name, like X Terminal Emulator would be x-terminal-emulator and there may be several programs (like gnome-terminal, konsole, xterm, rxvt, aterm etc.) that provide the X Terminal Emulator capability. Each of these programs indicates that it Provides: x-terminal-emulator. In the ( Read more... )

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Comments 7

deepix June 23 2005, 04:34:12 UTC

Ever since I started using multi-gnome-terminal, I have never bothered to look at alternatives. MGT rocks my socks!

appaji June 23 2005, 12:15:07 UTC

MGT is a memory hog, the logging buffers apart, even with unofficial patches it takes more than 250KB per tab, whereas konsole takes up only 8KB or so per tab. I don't run gnome at home because I have an old PIII-1GHz/128M-SDRAM/i810 machine that'll die under gnome. However, at work I use gnome-terminal.

deepix June 24 2005, 05:25:11 UTC

I run MGT on windowmaker - not GNOME. You cannot count only konsole for memory, I would start from all the bells and whistles that form the 'KDE foundation'. GTK2.x (that gnome-terminal uses) is not very slim on memory, either. ;-)

Mine is a P3 450 MHz/192M SDRAM machine at home. I run Woody on it.

appaji June 24 2005, 12:12:24 UTC

True :-). I was KDE user on Woody too, but primarily because Gnome was ugly in Woody. Thanks to cheaper and faster internet these days in India, I now use unstable. And XFCE 4.2.2 that was recently uploaded to unstable is visibly more faster than the one in sarge. Life is good :)

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sajith June 23 2005, 05:36:52 UTC

Nice :) How I miss Debian - apt-get installing all those wm's out there and mucking through them and installing a thousand elisp packages and trying each of them... and going to sleep without learning anything solid in the end despite the "firm" decisions :)

At work I use Eterm on Xfce4 on a Suse machine. I don't have a machine of my own these days, but the old one used to be only Debian - both Linux and Hurd. Didn't have a chance to look at Ubuntu or Sarge yet. Hope I won't be alienated too much when I come back :)

appaji June 23 2005, 12:19:49 UTC

> despite the "firm" decisions

:-) one tends to get lost in apt-get and apt-cache actually ;)

> Didn't have a chance to look at Ubuntu or Sarge yet

Man, sarge is ancient already. Ubuntu is good, it seems to be a favorite among a lot of people.