Switching terminal emulator: urxvt to xfce4-terminal
I have just switched my terminal from urxvt to xfce4-terminal.
Some considerations that led to the decision:
- urxvt's annoying Ctrl-Shift behavior: Just because I want Unicode displayed, I don't necessarily want to use all the input methods, which get in one's way and are hard to disable. 393847 is a workaround, but not much help for 256 color users. (That was what pushed me over the switching inertia.) If I want to input ðŸ‚, I use gucharmap.
- Switching font sizes is easy with Xfce terminal.
- Standard desktop software: As much as I like my custom desktop, I try to stick to non-exotic components where practical; Xfce is available on most desktops around me.
- I don't need terminal features like scrollback or tabs, because I use tmux both locally and remote for scrollback and multiple shells in a single window.
- Both feel equally snappy, provide support running a single process for many windows, support 256 colors, can be configured not to show anything but the text, and behave well with respect to re-wrapping text (at least when used with tmux).