What's your favorite *nix shell and terminal?

[SinNisTeR]

I like bash and aterm.

There was one terminal where you can right click anywhere on it and choose the terminal display settings, which one is that?

 

[futuristicmonkey]

I like bash due to its auto-completion, and other nifty features. Though, I also like korn for its old-schoolishness. As for terminals..I don't run around in X too often.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: futuristicmonkey
I like bash due to its auto-completion, and other nifty features. Though, I also like korn for its old-schoolishness. As for terminals..I don't run around in X too often.

pdksh does tab completion. csh does esc completion.

I don't use bash unless I'm forced to, it makes me feel dirty. pdksh is better.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Gnome Terminal. 😱

 

[Nothinman]

I've been using gnome-terminal lately for it's UTF-8 support, but it's still not as fast as uxterm.

 

[imported_LoKe]

pdksh doesn't like me.

$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Just hangs. However, if I just gedit, it works, but then I don't have permissions to save. If I su, then gedit, it returns an error.

(gedit:23358): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

Must be an xserver problem that I've caused by installing XGL.

 

[stars]

bash xterm/rxvt

 

[SleepWalkerX]

The default terminals for Gnome and KDE have always done what I needed. Never felt the need to go out and grab a different one.

 

[OSX]

LoKe- I just use nano for editing apt sources. Works like a charm.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: OSX
LoKe- I just use nano for editing apt sources. Works like a charm.

I still can't get used to nano. I guess it would be because of how I have my terminal set up, so all the fonts are weird and I can't see the hotkeys for saving, quitting, etc without highlighting.

Also, can I set it up so I don't have to have my damn mouse over the terminal in order to type?

 

[xtknight]

bash under Gnome terminal. Good enough for me.

Supposedly it's fast: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/en/rnusers.html

 

[xcript]

Bash and Eterm.

 

[magomago]

Whatever comes with gnome has worked perfectly for me 🙂

 

[silverpig]

bash and aterm

 

[Cynicist]

gnome-terminal is nice

 

[nweaver]

bash, and whatever the default terminal is in Debian not running any X

 

[Praetor]

Does screen count as a term? 😛 Bash for the shell.

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: LoKe
pdksh doesn't like me.

$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Just hangs. However, if I just gedit, it works, but then I don't have permissions to save. If I su, then gedit, it returns an error.

(gedit:23358): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

Must be an xserver problem that I've caused by installing XGL.

I get that same error when I gedit with Fedora...It just goes on, I can edit and then save...

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: thehstrybean
I get that same error when I gedit with Fedora...It just goes on, I can edit and then save...

I just reinstalled. All good now.

 

[Dravic]

ksh, xterm



oooo.. i think my solaris is showing.....

 

[Nothinman]

oooo.. i think my solaris is showing.....

Ew, put that away.