[Gllug] Transparent Terminal

[Nix]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004, Tethys said:
> 
> Nix writes:
> 
>>That's a deeply silly test. Of *course* konsole has a higher
>>initialization overhead than rxvt: it's got DCOP registration and who
>>knows what else to do
> 
> But that's the point -- I don't want it to do any of those things.
> I just want a terminal. Hence I use rxvt rather than konsole.

The DCOP is for reusable-component intercommunication, mostly: the KPart
and its wrapper have to talk somehow. (I *like* the idea of being able
to boss around full terminal emulators from shell scripts and perl
scripts and the like. :) )

>>But the common use case for terminal emulators is *not* `start one per
>>command'. It's `start one and work in it for some time'.
> 
> Speak for yourself. I use terminals as throwaway items. Bound to a hotkey
> combination in fvwm, I frequently bring up a new terminal to check something
> (whether it's reading a man page, running up dc or whatever), and then close
> them down when I'm done. That becomes far less feasible when your terminal
> launch time is more than instantaneous. Again, hence rxvt.

I used to do that (until, ooh, two days ago); but now I find myself
popping up new tabs a lot of the time; i.e., unless I *want* the new
terminal to be smaller than the old one and Z-order-overlapping with it,
I'll use a tab. :)

But this is definitely a YMMV.

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