Oct 29 2004
aterm
Looking for an alternative to the bloat of gnome-terminal? I was. I tend to use multiple terminals (I have 5 open right now) and I’m not a fan of tabbed terminals. I vaguely remembered using aterm once upon a time, so I fired it up. By default, aterm is quite ugly but uses much less resources than it’s GNOME counterpart.
Because aterm was built as an xterm replacement, it will honor Xresource settings for xterm, as well as it’s own Xresource settings. You can also customize it from the command line, which is what I did.
stone@moradin:~$ more ~/bin/aterm
/usr/bin/aterm -title ‘Terminal’ -bg black -shading 30 -fade 90 -fg #cecece -tr +sb -sr -si -sk
I’m pretty pleased with the results. I nice, clean terminal and considerably less memory usage. What more could a boy ask for?
A better font… setup some andale mono love
Indeed — I like bitstream vera sans mono
Meh, no UTF-8 support.
And i’m still using Windows
[...] gnome-terminal I am a slave to my terminal. I typically have at least a dozen terminals active, half of those connected to different machines and the rest assigned to various tasks. I have the single-task terminal, usually to monitor services on specific machines. For that I typically use aterm. For the rest I’ve recently been using konsole. It’s tab support works better than anything else I’ve tried and the keybindings, while not perfect, are at least customizable. That is generally the only KDE app that I use and I’d prefer not to simply for the additional resources required. [...]