On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 11:53:18AM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > Craig Sanders <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > mrxvt (my previous favourite terminal) is also much faster than any > > > libvte-based terminal, about as fast as plain old xterm. unfortunately, > > > it doesn't support unicode so i finally gave up using it a couple of > > > years ago (i switched to roxterm which is, IMO, the least crappy of the > > > libvte-based terminals - i tried them all when i reluctantly accepted > > > that i'd have to give up mrxvt) > > > > Obligatory mention of urxvt (rxvt-unicode) if you just need CJKV, > > and (IIRC) mlterm if you need bidi. > > i tried urxvt, didn't like it. it might have started from the same base > code as mrxvt long ago, but it forked in a wildly different direction. > > i disliked urxvt enough that even libvte-based terms are preferable.
Heh. My biggest problems were all of the menu options removed. And it just didn't seem to work so well. > mostly i need unicode so that i don't get '?' characters all over the > screen when viewing text created on unicode systems, e.g. email or > viewing web pages in links or lynx. and so that the terminal accounts > for line-width and characters-displayed-per-line correctly. xterm satisfies this well. > i've come to accept roxterm as 'good enough'...i've got used to its > quirks just as i got used to mrxvt's quirks. > > > > Also nitpick: xterm *does* support unicode, it just doesn't support > > non-latin/cyrillic/greek orthographies very well. Obs. xterm -u8 / > > uxterm. > > i've ignored xterm for years because it doesn't do tabs and resizing for > readable fonts on high-resolution displays is a PITA. meh, set and forget. These look like my relevent settings: !to get meta characters to be able to be input in bash and emacs in an xterm: !http://www.leonerd.org.uk/hacks/hints/xterm-8bit.html XTerm*VT100.utf8: 1 XTerm*VT100.eightBitInput: false XTerm*VT100.eightBitControl: false XTerm*VT100.eightBitOutput: true !http://www.leonerd.org.uk/hacks/hints/xterm-sensible.html !When using xft fonts (facename below), these below just set the relative scalings and where the default font size fits in relative to the other font sizes XTerm*VT100.faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono XTerm*VT100.boldFont: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold XTerm*VT100.faceSize: 9 XTerm*VT100.faceSize1: 1 XTerm*VT100.faceSize2: 5 XTerm*VT100.faceSize3: 7 XTerm*VT100.faceSize4: 11 XTerm*VT100.faceSize5: 14 XTerm*VT100.faceSize6: 17 XTerm*VT100.Font2: -*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-*-*-8-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*VT100.Font3: -*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*VT100.Font: -*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*VT100.Font4: -*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*VT100.Font5: -*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*VT100.Font6: -*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 -- Tim Connors _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
