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

[appaji]

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

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[deepix]

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

[appaji]

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]

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]

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 :)

[deepix]

Indeed. GNOME 1.x sucks. GNOME 1.x (alongwith GTK 1.x) is a prime example of 'programmer-oriented' program, with no aesthetic sense to boast about anywhere, IMHO.

(I am talking about the 'default' 'theme' here.)