Use Eterm as an alternative to Terminal.app

May 04, '02 01:43:02AM

Contributed by: osxpez

I don't know if I'm alone with this, but I think that Terminal.app has lots of room for improvement. You don't get syntax highlighting in vim without some trickery, for instance. I used to stick to xterm in OroborOSX. But it's really slow. First I thought it all had to do with XonX, but after having installed Eterm, I see it's much faster, and it has a more accessible scrollbar as well.

For those who haven't heard of Eterm, it's the terminal application of preference with the Enlightenment window manager, popular together with Gnome. It's highly configurable and "themeable" for those who appreciate such things. If you have fink installed, installing Eterm is as simple as:

% sudo apt-get install eterm
[Editor's note: Eterm is a very nice terminal program. I trashed my fink installation tonight on accident, but it only took about 20 minutes to get it all running again, with eterm installed. Wiht lots of unique themes and fast scrolling, it's a nice alternative to the OS X Terminal.app.]

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