Favorite console to work with under linux

[LuckyTaxi]

Im in love with Enlightenment, but I hate xterm. There's no vertical scrollbar!!!
Any other alternative worth looking at? I like konsole from KDE, but I'm not touching KDE with a 10 feet pole

 

[n0cmonkey]

You can run konsole without running KDE. My xterms have vertical scroll bars 🙂

 

[Spyro]

I don't get it. To me a console is just a console.... But I do like eterm 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

scrollbar? That's what shift+pageup is for.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Xterm has a scrollbar. Maybe it's turned off by default for you. Look in one of the menus (control left/middle/right click are each different xterm menus), there should be an option to turn it on, mess with your .Xdefaults or .Xresources to get it turned on by default (among a million other things you can do in those files). As Nothinman mentioned, shift+pageup/down (or a mousewheel) also scrolls.

I like aterm. It's easier to get working with alt+keys, is more lightweight than xterm, and has transparency should you decide you want a transparent term at any point. Eterm follows the tradition of Enlightenment: extremely customizeable, and extremely bloated. It does transparency faster than aterm though. (uses a totally different method, but requires you to use Esetroot to set your root background)

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
scrollbar? That's what shift+pageup is for.

Simplicity is the only away that why I still prefer ae/pico over Vim/Emac.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: lowtech

Originally posted by: Nothinman
scrollbar? That's what shift+pageup is for.

Simplicity is the only away that why I still prefer ae/pico over Vim/Emac.

Vi is simple.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: lowtech

Originally posted by: Nothinman
scrollbar? That's what shift+pageup is for.

Simplicity is the only away that why I still prefer ae/pico over Vim/Emac.

I guess I'm just a visual person, but I consider them a little more cluttery and messy, at least pico, because of the 2 lines of space at the bottom with those big flashy key combo reminders. Never used ae.

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: lowtech

Originally posted by: Nothinman
scrollbar? That's what shift+pageup is for.

Simplicity is the only away that why I still prefer ae/pico over Vim/Emac.

Vi is simple.

Vi is nice, but it have way too many command for me to remember as a ocasional user and it is not as small as ae that weight in at 12k.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: lowtech

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: lowtech

Originally posted by: Nothinman
scrollbar? That's what shift+pageup is for.

Simplicity is the only away that why I still prefer ae/pico over Vim/Emac.

Vi is simple.

Vi is nice, but it have way too many command for me to remember as a ocasional user and it is not as small as ae that weight in at 12k.

I have never heard of ae. It does not appear to be installed on Solaris, OpenBSD, or Red Hat 7.3.

 

[lowtech1]

You can get it here the newer & bloated version between 98~265k , or here as Debian package.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: lowtech
You can get it here the newer & bloated version between 98~265k , or here as Debian package.

I take it you mean ae.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: lowtech

Originally posted by: Nothinman
scrollbar? That's what shift+pageup is for.

Simplicity is the only away that why I still prefer ae/pico over Vim/Emac.

Vi is simple.

And well featured.

 

[civad]

rxvt

 

[LuckyTaxi]

yea ... i got xterm to run with the scrollbar, but it's funky for some odd reason.
I installed rxvt and I'm having fun. I need to install gnuls (i think thats wut it's called. colors for files and directory)

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: lilcam
yea ... i got xterm to run with the scrollbar, but it's funky for some odd reason.
I installed rxvt and I'm having fun. I need to install gnuls (i think thats wut it's called. colors for files and directory)

You need to use the middle button to scroll with the xterm scrollbar IIRC.

Also IIRC - freebsd's ls has colors.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: lilcam
yea ... i got xterm to run with the scrollbar, but it's funky for some odd reason.
I installed rxvt and I'm having fun. I need to install gnuls (i think thats wut it's called. colors for files and directory)

You need to use the middle button to scroll with the xterm scrollbar IIRC.

Also IIRC - freebsd's ls has colors.

Hmmm ... I didnt see any colors, which is weird becuz on my other freebsd box I think I do get color under KDE. I will check tomorrow.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: lilcam

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: lilcam
yea ... i got xterm to run with the scrollbar, but it's funky for some odd reason.
I installed rxvt and I'm having fun. I need to install gnuls (i think thats wut it's called. colors for files and directory)

You need to use the middle button to scroll with the xterm scrollbar IIRC.

Also IIRC - freebsd's ls has colors.

Hmmm ... I didnt see any colors, which is weird becuz on my other freebsd box I think I do get color under KDE. I will check tomorrow.

Oh, I assumed you had looked at the man page.... that'll teach me to assume 🙂

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Oh, I assumed you had looked at the man page.... that'll teach me to assume 🙂

You would think I would read the man pages!!!

I keep posting questions, and then resolve it myself minutes later after resorting to google or the man pages.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: lilcam

Oh, I assumed you had looked at the man page.... that'll teach me to assume 🙂

You would think I would read the man pages!!!

I keep posting questions, and then resolve it myself minutes later after resorting to google or the man pages.

Yep... been there, done that. Why do you think I hardly ever post questions here? I know that I'll just end up finding the answer myself 😛