x11 Terminals

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A quick guide to terminal emulators for x11

There are so many good terminals for xfree.

xterm - Part of xfree.
- Manual page
- http://dickey.his.com/xterm/
aterm - A very nice terminal emulator with transparency support as well as rxvt backwards compatibility
- http://aterm.sourceforge.net/
- Read our aterm guide
eterm - another fancy terminal emulator.
- http://www.eterm.org/
rxvt - A plain and very fast terminal emulator. Your choice for all old hardware.
- http://www.rxvt.org/
- Looks good with: rxvt +sb -fg white -bg black -fn 6x10 -fb 6x10
wterm - rxvt patched for transparenty and a scrollbar.
- http://largo.windowmaker.org/files.php#wterm
gnome-terminal - The standard for Gnome. Very nice. Somewhat hard to configure the keys right.
- http://www.gnome.org/
multignometerm - A more advanced version of the Gnome Terminal
- http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net/
konsole - KDEs terminal emulator. Quite nice, but somewhat slow compared to rxvt. (part of kdebase)
- http://www.kde.org
hanterm - The Korean terminal
- http://www.hanterm.org/

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