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What is pulled up first (in a Linux GUI environment) before the shell is run.

See also:

• /tag/terminal-multiplexers

• Console — The “text mode” for Linux.

Terminals ∞

• Testing Linux software speed and memory costs

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• /tag/terminal-emulators

  • /tag/terminal-emulators+loved
  • /tag/terminal-emulators+liked

• 2009-04-18 – fcterm – (version not recorded)

  • Not my thing..

• 2009-04-17 – 9term – (version not recorded)

  • A terminal, an editor and an IDE all in one. Exceptionally light and easy on memory.
  • I might test this, if it was downloadable.

Using a bitmap font ∞

• https://martin.ankerl.com/2007/09/01/comprehensive-linux-terminal-performance-comparison/

  • If you want to display bitmap fonts in gnome-terminal, edit ~/.fonts.conf and add these lines right after the <fontconfig> opening tag:

<!-- Accept bitmap fonts -->
<selectfont>
 <acceptfont>
  <pattern>
    <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
  </pattern>
 </acceptfont>
</selectfont>