On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:26:10AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: > > > > I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome > > libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are > > nice) > > > > xterm does display some things correctly (like sysinstall type command > > line GUIs). > > Try x11/rxvt-unicode. It doesn't require Gnome nor KDE libraries, and it does > handle unicode well. It's a lot lighter than xterm. And it has transparancy or > backgrounds if you like that.
It's not "a lot lighter" - I made a table recently to investigate.
See
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_rxvt
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