Over the years I’ve been using multiple Linux distros, and was always trying new terminal emulators. Each of them comes with a bunch of eye-candy features, and it’s too hard to settle on one of them.
Just try running pacman -Ss terminal emulator (if you’re on
Arch of course. Otherwise use your favourite
package manager.
)
What one should actually do, is ask oneself, “Do I really need a fancy terminal
emulator?”
After switching to OpenBSD, I settled on xterm. Now whenever I’m on Linux, I use xterm as well.
It’s light, it’s simple, it’s in base in OpenBSD. Since quite a while it also
supports utf8.
It’s easy to configure:
# .Xresources:
XTerm*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
XTerm*dynamicColors: true
XTerm*utf8: 2
XTerm*eightBitInput: false
XTerm*scrollBar: false
XTerm*loginShell: true
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: green
Some additional tips: Define custom actions for specific key combinations, in this example - zoom in/out
xterm*VT100.Translations: #override \
Ctrl <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \n\
Ctrl <Key> plus: larger-vt-font() \n\
Ctrl <Key> 0: set-vt-font(d)
Define custom sizes for the VT font:
! VT Font Menu: Unreadable
xterm*faceSize1: 8
! VT font menu: Tiny
xterm*faceSize2: 10
! VT font menu: Medium
xterm*faceSize3: 12
! VT font menu: Large
xterm*faceSize4: 16
! VT font menu: Huge
xterm*faceSize5: 22