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  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday October 06 2020, @10:25AM (2 children)

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 06 2020, @10:25AM (#1061229) Journal

    I used to think transparent terminals were cool back then but I went back to plain old xterm. The transparent terminals were a bit slower, some were buggy and I soon found the background distracting when trying to get things done. I still use xterm. It's small, fast and does everything I need. With a bit of shell scripting, it's an important building block in my environment. Together, bash, xterm and ash are incredibly powerful tools.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by DECbot on Tuesday October 06 2020, @01:12PM

    by DECbot (832) on Tuesday October 06 2020, @01:12PM (#1061249) Journal

    I have kept the terminal transparency--at about 80% on a windowing environment capable of doing composting. The result is being able to type over the windows behind the terminal with little distraction, but when needed I can see through the terminal to reference documentation, like the switches for the command I'm stringing together (or blatant copy/pasta of commands from the internet to be executed as root--yes I know what I'm doing, being stupid).

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    cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @06:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @06:34PM (#1062183)

    Try alacritty. I never used xterm because rxvt/urxvt was always better, but after 15 years I have finally moved.

    And I used to use fvwm (still install it because why not) but I am stuck on KDE that now likes to call itself plasma. Honestly, I am very happy with it.

    As far as enlightenment is concerned, at some point of time close to 2008-2010, Rasterman was contacted by Samsung to write backend for mobile devices, so he dropped all the bling-bling and focused on fixing base libraries (efl), in top of which his minions created the most easily portable and most uninspired desktop experience and basically kicked e17 out the door, to be used by no known user. Seriously, the stuff you could do in e17 back in 2008 was all gone by 2012. What a let down. Now its proponents write shitty software on top of efl like terminology that doesn't work properly and will never because its developers have no goal beside using efl.