Best Terminal Emulator For Fluxbox?

What is the best terminal emulator for Fluxbox? What do you guys use? What looks the nicest? What has transparency? Right now I'm using gnome-terminal but I don't want gnome installed on my system. I'm also using thunar to manage files.

Misfit138 wrote:
solarwind wrote:What is the best terminal emulator for Fluxbox?
Only you can answer that.
I use Terminal when in Fluxbox. pacman -S terminal
Yeah, that would be the xfce4-terminal. I love that one!
BC wrote:
Questions like these are just a matter of taste. You basically just asked, "What's better, Coke or Pepsi?"
Sprite, of course, is the correct answer.
I'm not posting this to start a coke/pepsi war. Orange juice is best. What I'm asking here is what do YOU guys use because I want to KNOW what's OUT THERE. So I can TRY them MYSELF.
bgc1954 wrote:I happen to like rxvt-unicode no matter what kind of DE/WM I'm running. Seems to be popular amongst Arch users. Lightweight too.
Can it do transparency?
kazuo wrote:
So what about not the 'best' but what you use?
I'm using openbox with urxvt because a lot o ppl in here use it and because it have the two must for me unicode and 256 colors. But I'm missing my konsole from kde4 it have a lot of great features (lit can change cursor shape, don't paste extra newlines at the final of output ...).
I'll check out urxvt.

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