From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 08:12:09 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 D04731065670 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:12:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from depocatcher@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9413C8FC15 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:12:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn10 with SMTP id 10so1292418iwn.13 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:12:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=g+RTtOhhmxtaZgF6NH0wy9QCKD7+etzNZozRCyH1uJQ=; b=gED42HU3pt9hKcy3zeVy668mu6f2X1OaUulaWDgqD8/T3P4J5m51wWwgL0Mscdjl4C I30v44CXtwVSbLkC8CK9Ap7gsBNWLhyGRMfVVEXwkTD6ieTj1MvRQKOt/8ITO4HgzwLt kAE+MKTLJnGtwjd4aHQvrTvatKLvdcSBdPxcY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nHrNPxr4JNbjG5eDp5oelpMV9o9ywlzu2oRC7GzrGFr2B2lbULSH0CcKpZrm7G0oQp f/spSWGk3ExAM78MEkxV+Z3gecGjyllmCsZSm3t/yKIPf+6uE9jIJr86iayW4rCXq+d5 sBCMzT4xOZ73eA+DfAFfCYo4KJIdwnENV/4Hk= Received: by 10.231.13.130 with SMTP id c2mr8513287iba.24.1281082329111; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.17.10] (c-98-240-166-249.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [98.240.166.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm994690ibi.18.2010.08.06.01.12.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C5BC3DB.4080406@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:12:11 -0500 From: Depo Catcher User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Freebsd questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Good Terminal for X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: depocatcher@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:12:10 -0000 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). eterm is nice, but again, requires a ton of libs and looks funny on low color displays (ie. remotely to save bandwidth). I have putty, which works very nice. I guess I could set it up to ssh locally; but don't see any good reason it should be going though ssh just to get a terminal (it's a slow workstation). Any other suggestions?