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Szerző: shraptor
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Címzett: dng
Tárgy: Re: [DNG] XFCE terminal alternatives?
You could have a look at AltYo

https://github.com/linvinus/AltYo

I always compiled from git but there is evidence of debian
packaging in repo so should be easy to install on devuan?

best regards

Scooby


On 2015-12-07 17:26, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 09:39:18 -0600
> dev <devuan.2@???> wrote:
>
>> I've been using Devuan on my desktop for a number of months now. Very
>> nice! Only thing is about once a week the XFCE Terminal (in drop down
>> mode) will sort of crash when closing GTK applications.
>
> [snip]
>
>> I like the tabs and the drop-down feature of XFCE Terminal as well as
>> the light footprint. I've tried others[1] such as Terra Terminal,
>> Terminator and Yakuake but can't seem to find one with all the right
>> features. Any suggestions? ...installing Guake atm..
>
> Guake is good for stuff that it's good for.
>
> I've always found Xfce a little bit glitchy. You might want to try
> installing and running LXDE, with it's lxterminal as an almost
> identical substitute to xfce4-terminal. Not only that, but it's just
> possible that xfce4-terminal will behave better in an LXDE environment
> than it did in an Xfce environment. I put LXDE on all my laptops,
> because if my computer simply must work, and I need a panel, then LXDE
> is what I want.
>
> You could also try Openbox plus Dmenu. And I highly recommend using
> Dmenu with LXDE: It's easy.
>
> By the way, all the preceding is a guess. And everything I suggested is
> easily reversible. It's easy to flip between LXDE and Xfce.
>
> HTH,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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