Terminal application
 

Linux users, what terminal application do you use? Do you stick with the standard xterm, or do you use another application (perhaps konsole or whatever the Gnome terminal is called)? Do you even have X compiled/installed?

I seem to cycle between xterm and aterm. With the monitor I have on my Gentoo machine, aterm works a lot better, because I can actually read the text >_<

For reference, Gnome's is `gnome-terminal` (which is the slowest terminal I've ever used).

I stick to ol' uxterm (unicode xterm), and it's been a dream for me. Nice and fast, and it looks nice. Though I suppose saying uxterm isn't enough, so here's the actual command:
As I have a bunch of Japanese things on my system, using that particular font (an iso10646 one) is essential to get decent formatting. A screenshot is attached to show what I mean.

Since I use KDE I stick with Konsole. Really easy to modify, although I don't like having an overly complex appearence on my terminals. I always try transparency settings and cool color configurations only to switch back to plain old white on black.

aterm. Small, light, and very much customizable. At least when I actually pull up a terminal program instead of just going to vt1.

I don't get why this is a discussion, myself. I've found all of them to be pretty much the same, especially since all you're doing is typing in text.

Someone please enlighten me.

It's nothing more than what one prefers, really.

For instance, Konsole is a tabbed terminal (think Opera), whereas xterm is much simpler; Konsole is also a bunch heavier than most of them. I stick to xterm as I do not have an environment like Gnome installed, and grabbing one of the terminals from a DE would "bloat" things (if you can call it that--I hate having unneeded libs installed) pretty badly.

For instance, xterm only depends on 2 things and is under a few MB. Konsole requires 8 things, and weighs in at 22 MB of source.

A terminal is important for those who do a lot of coding (if they use Vim or Emacs), and in Linux you can do most things much faster from a terminal. Additionally, some people just have different preferences when it comes to how they want to do things. I like Konsole because it's got tabs and can be modified really easily. In particular, you can set shortcuts for everything. I never quite got the hang of configuring xterm, but it doesn't really seem to be worth it IMO.

I suppose that it matters more to people who use distros like Gentoo, where choice is a bigger deal considering that you'd have to choose your own terminal there, unless you want to stay with xterm. (Also, some--like myself--don't want something that will take up much disk space at all.)

I'm a KDE person so Konsole is the natural choice. White on dark transparency, "Teminus" font, no menubar.

I use aterm personally. If xterm natively supported transparencies (maybe it does now?) without having to recompile additional things, I would consider it.

And I agree that gnome-terminal takes eons to boot in comparison to the more lightweight ones.

konsole, I like its tab feature and don't care about it eat memory.

I use one I wrote myself for an assignment I had to do last year, pretty basic but hey it does the job and i get the added satisfaction that I wrote it and understand how it works :)

On my Gentoo desktop I use xterm, on my Ubuntu laptop I use gnome-terminal, and on the Macs at work I use Terminal. I don't really have a preference among the three; they all do what I want them to do, and I don't notice much slowdown with the more "bloated" terms.
For me, its the shell that matters. I always use bash where I can, with the following .bashrc borrowed from Gentoo, with a slightly different PS1 for root accounts to make it visually distinct.
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