Terminal application

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:

xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8
 -fg rgb:e5e5/e5e5/e5e5 -bg black
 -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

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