From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 15:53:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A43106564A for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:53:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swell.k@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6998FC1D for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so3310007ewy.13 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:53:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:references :date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=4i5/8MLmagsIk112Wff1qG+I2ujEqqHNFj7/hsQn0tU=; b=AVswJILYSpduw/g4B10RqjMt9YAUkmYzi9zYy5q7GQ8fct73jmsCYtpoXH6U4LQ7+M eeXBSyawdBXQZx4SScVQf2qBAjrQ3EVBeJq9HXq9PWbHQC5xFiIimAq44w3lYYLCI6FW 2Djz23fj2TYyfHIC9eoMWkEtCLGJzFddslQAg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; b=Tp2R5EXmPPAdzRWSZ9Cur4xQeC/mCFSPTlCJ5ClpvHaoYf2ZigX3kyg7TbGiTilKLp 4/QNqXelQCpLIYtR3k9UdYw1Bfi7mkBi9l1Rrfd2nV3AvsPWQoALfTZoYAdeFtzr7a9G /RwTAbDNKs3TeVYsi/p1i8MPKDc6eOslv2B/c= Received: by 10.213.20.142 with SMTP id f14mr8961972ebb.30.1281110026504; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([78.142.140.194]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z55sm2493563eeh.21.2010.08.06.08.53.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:53:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Anonymous To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4C5BC3DB.4080406@gmail.com> <20100806092610.GA14470@slackbox.erewhon.net> <20100806153733.GB90463@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:53:35 +0400 In-Reply-To: <20100806153733.GB90463@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> (Chip Camden's message of "Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:37:33 -0700") Message-ID: <86d3tveo00.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Good Terminal for X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:53:48 -0000 Chip Camden writes: > Quoth Roland Smith on Friday, 06 August 2010: >> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: >> > >> > I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome >> > libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are >> > nice) >> > >> > xterm does display some things correctly (like sysinstall type command >> > line GUIs). >> >> Try x11/rxvt-unicode. It doesn't require Gnome nor KDE libraries, and it does >> handle unicode well. It's a lot lighter than xterm. And it has transparancy or >> backgrounds if you like that. > > On the subject of unicode, can anyone recommend a good terminal font that > includes all (or most) unicode characters? If I'm not mistaken unicode coverage can be achieved by combining several fonts using fontconfig[1]. The good start would be to combine DejaVu Sans Mono with some CJK font of your choice. [1] This is where xterm sucks, it can only use normal + double-width font.