On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 11:53:18AM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> 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. 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. 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. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>