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What is your favourite terminal program?

Are you a xterm traditionalist or an eterm fanboy?
Do you stick with what comes with your windowing environment:
gnome-terminal, konsole, cmd.exe or terminal.app?
Maybe aterm is more your thing or even rxvt?

Let us know!

This is a poll, so please only one terminal per answer. Upvote your choice, tell us why in a comment.

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Should mark this community-wiki – squillman Jun 3 '09 at 22:05

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eTerm when on linux (Terminal.app when on mac osx, rxvt when on windows w/ cygwin and finally putty when all else fails)

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urxvt. +screen

thats what i use everywhere. (*nix systems)

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  • iTerm on Mac OS X, for 8-bit color support.
  • PuTTY on Windows, for lack of ever finding anything else.
  • On Linux, whatever's there. Usually gnome-terminal in Ubuntu, I guess.
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Good old xterm, with this .Xresources setup:

XTerm*foreground:       green
XTerm*background:       black
XTerm*font:             7x13
XTerm*loginShell:       true
XTerm*scrollBar:        true
XTerm*rightScrollBar:   true
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I notice emacs isn't represented; I like using the emacs terminal whenever possible because it integrates so nicely with the rest of my desktop.

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I use Konsole, and i'm satisfied

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gnome-terminal works really well. It's very fast, handles Unicode very well, can do real transparency with compiz, anti-aliased fonts and so on.

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ZOC for work on SSH/Telnet and programming routers directly over serial cable for Windows and Mac. Other than that the Windows Command Prompt and Terminal.app for quick stuff.

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Terminal.app + Terminus font ,because I'm a Mac os X user !

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