Every terminal emulator I've tried ... [LWN.net]

Every terminal emulator I've tried ...

Posted Jun 7, 2004 14:52 UTC (Mon) by wookey (guest, #5501)
In reply to: Every terminal emulator I've tried ... by AnswerGuy
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to terminal emulators

Screen is brilliant, but doesn't everyone find the default escape character of crtl-A really annoying? This has made me give it up, despite it's advantages. I use ctrl-A a lot to get to the beginning of a line and thus you have to use screen rigorously everywhere so that's it's always ctrl-A A - having some terms with screen and some without is hopeless. I realise I could change it but the point about terms is that you use them all over the place, sshed into lots of machines (or at least I do), and that's just too many places to change to make consistent, and to keep changed over updates.

So I've ended using multi-gnome-terminal which is a nice simple terminal but with tabs, which I do find extremely useful. Since I started, gnome-terminal has gained tabs, but gnome-terminal sucks up ALT-function-key combos and thus is incompatible with midnight commander, which is completely fatal IMHO. So I have stuck with multi-gnome-terminal. I don't understand what the relationship between these two is - I hope MGT won't disappear.

Every terminal emulator I've tried ...

Posted Jun 10, 2004 13:59 UTC (Thu) by aigarius (guest, #7329) [Link]

You can disable the ALT feature in gnome-terminal, also the default assignment of F10 to go to menu can be easily disabled in profile settings.
Acctually that is the first thing I do when I sit down at a new PC.

Every terminal emulator I've tried ...

Posted Jun 13, 2004 22:59 UTC (Sun) by EricBackus (guest, #2816) [Link]

As an emacs user I found that screen remapping ctrl-a was unacceptable. I
don't have much use for screen anymore, but when I did always used ctrl-z
instead of ctrl-a. If you think about it, it makes sense - ctrl-z is
usually used to suspend the current process, and what you're trying to do
with screen is suspend the current shell. Kind of.

multi-gnome-terminal

Posted Jun 20, 2004 16:45 UTC (Sun) by ela (guest, #22463) [Link] (1 responses)

I use multi-gnome-terminal, too. While it has URL highliting, I haven't found out yet whether it also has URL handling, i.e. that one clicks on an URL starting with "http://" and having it open it in your favourite browser. Is this configurable, and how?

Re: multi-gnome-terminal

Posted Jun 24, 2004 12:58 UTC (Thu) by sckramer (guest, #22557) [Link]

Try ctrl+middle mouse button. Configurability is a little bit of an issue, it seems to not listen to any off the mechanisms available on my Debian system: /etc/alternatives/, sensible-browser, gnome settings, all of which are pointed to firefox. Yet it manages to start up plain mozilla on all URL's I click. Couldn't find anything in the documentation. Anyone for a solution (other than sym-linking /usr/bin/mozilla to firefox)?
For the rest MGT is great. It is the only terminal I can find with tabs and configurable shortcut-keys for self-defined 'tab-profiles' (unlike konsole and gnome-terminal), which is handy if you log into different computers regularly