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Hi All,
I've used lxde for quite a long time, but since it's masked now i have changed to lxqt. After quite some fiddling i got it do to what i want it do it. There's only one thing left: My main reason to use X is to open more terminals  (okay, okay, firefox also doesn't run that well without a GUI  ), and unfortunately there's a lot of things i don't like about lxqt's terminal.
This made me look for other terminals, and for now i've changed to xfce4-terminal. Are there any others worth trying with a similar set of features?
Thanks.
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fedeliallalinea
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2021 11:00 am Post subject: Re: Terminals |
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| pa4wdh wrote: | | This made me look for other terminals, and for now i've changed to xfce4-terminal. Are there any others worth trying with a similar set of features? |
Exactly what features need you?
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2021 11:38 am Post subject: |
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| I like Mate terminal best, but it's gtk. |
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pa4wdh
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2021 12:18 pm Post subject: Re: Terminals |
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| fedeliallalinea wrote: | | Exactly what features need you? |
I actually didn't specify that on purpose
The reason is that it's often the small things that makes a terminal easy to use. For example, a feature i like it tabs. Lxqt's terminal has tabs, but if you want to use the mouse open a new one you have to go to the menu, and with xfce4-terminal you can just right click and it's the second option, to me this makes a huge difference.
So in terms of features tabs would be one i need, recognizing links in the terminal text (for example an emerge -s output) and offer to open them in a browser is also one i like.
Thanks for the suggestions, i'll give them a try.
| Quote: | | I like Mate terminal best, but it's gtk. |
I don't really care about gtk or qt. The only reason i got into lxqt is that it was suggested as a successor or lxde.
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| I guess I tried them all. Konsole is the terminal emulator I like best. |
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I've installed them all now and gave them a first glance.
My first impression is that terminology seems to be a bit too graphics-heavy for my taste, but all of them seem to be nice candidates to become my next terminal
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I've gone ahead and unmasked all of lxde, though the only parts I'm running are pcmanfm, lxpanel, and lxterminal. But, more and more I find myself just running sakura.
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| mike155 wrote: | | I guess I tried them all. Konsole is the terminal emulator I like best. |
Same here
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I just installed sakura, it's really nice and small, thanks for the tip.
I tried to install konsole (i have been a kde user around 2000 and i liked it back then), but since it unconditionally pulls in polkit i decided not to.
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| Tanks for the Sakura tip, liking it. |
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| Yes, sakura seems nice and simple but how does one increase the brightness/contrast? Text is too dim. Right color but dim. |
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I'm using sakura now and i really like it, I also like to dim colors
You can change the palette with left click -> options -> more -> set palette, maybe there is one you like. I can't see a way to add one if that's what required.
Edit: I just found out that you have to edit the source code to change the palette colors. It doesn't seem to difficult since the source is just one c file . Maybe you can make a user patch to change it into the colors you want.
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| Colors are fine. Brightness is not. Running Mate-terminal and sakura side by side the colors are the same but dim on sakura like lit by a dying bulb. |
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There are a lot of palette choices on the right-click menus. Options-More-Set palette. xterm provides decently bright colors.
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| Tony0945 wrote: | | Colors are fine. Brightness is not. Running Mate-terminal and sakura side by side the colors are the same but dim on sakura like lit by a dying bulb. |
There is no separate brightness setting. The colors are defined using Red/Green/Blue/Alpha(transparancy), so having a low value for green would cause a dimmed color green, a higher value would be brighter.
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I'm using Yakuake and I'm actually totally happy with it since it allows me to show it and hide it quite easily, but that's something really every terminal emulator allows you to with different (as I know) always customizable shortcuts.
I think it's only a good idea to use it when you're going to use KDE plasma anyways since it's going to compille KDE plasma packages and QT packages as dependencies.
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What does "show it and hide it" mean?
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| If you need simple terminal applications, take a look at st, sakura, alacritty and kitty. St is extremely simple but do the job. Alacritty and kitty are more extensive in features (without too much dependencies). |
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| Terminology from the enlightenment live project seems to be quite buggy for me. |
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| Quote: | | I also love xfce4-terminal.Its the only one I use. |
Me too.
| Quote: | | I some times use Terminator for splitting and tried Terminology... |
Some of these fancy schmancey terminals suffer from the little-package-tied-to-the-giant-package syndrome. Too many hassles. Keep it simple. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: Terminals |
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| pa4wdh wrote: | Hi All,
I've used lxde for quite a long time, but since it's masked now i have changed to lxqt. After quite some fiddling i got it do to what i want it do it. There's only one thing left: My main reason to use X is to open more terminals (okay, okay, firefox also doesn't run that well without a GUI ), and unfortunately there's a lot of things i don't like about lxqt's terminal.
This made me look for other terminals, and for now i've changed to xfce4-terminal. Are there any others worth trying with a similar set of features?
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I would just use your own customised st (suckless/simple terminal).
Patches usually don't fail as hard as on stuff like dwm, just make sure to have a backup terminal emulator incase something goes wrong; and repeat until you have st how you like it.
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pa4wdh
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:35 am Post subject: Re: Terminals |
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| fullbyte wrote: |
I would just use your own customised st (suckless/simple terminal).
Patches usually don't fail as hard as on stuff like dwm, just make sure to have a backup terminal emulator incase something goes wrong; and repeat until you have st how you like it. |
Thanks for your suggestions. In the mean time i've tried about every terminal that has been mentioned in this topic and have more or less settled on either sakura and/or xfce4-terminal.
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