[plug] XTerm Defaults...

[Craig Ringer]

> It was a happy day when I discovered that I could "apt-get remove
> gnome-terminal" and have all the debian gnome menus start an xterm
> instead, because they all run x-terminal-emulator.

You don't have to.

A debian config trick that you might've missed takes care of it. All the 
  menus that auto-switched probably had "X Terminal Emulator" listed not 
"Gnome Terminal" and pointed to the x-terminal-emulator symlink.

Now, if you

update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

you can pick which xterm gets run by the x-terminal-emulator command. As 
a result, I only every refer to "x-terminal-emulator" in my scripts, 
menu and toolbar files, etc - so I can switch quickly and easily.

>>I do prefer a terminal which supports Antialiased fonts...
> 
> For terminals that use fixed width fonts, I can't see the point.

Depends. If you're using a monospaced truetype font, it would be very 
nice - but if you're using a bitmapped font like 8x13 or 10x20 it (a) 
won't work and (b) wouldn't help.

Personally, I like the bitmapped console fonts so I don't care - but I 
only found out about them recently since for some incomprehensible 
reason the font selectors in things like gnome-terminal don't display 
them. I've started using rxvt instead over the last week or so (now that 
I know how to configure it with X resources) and had to find a decent font.

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