Looking for a very fast utf8 xterminal?
Give a try to urxvt in daemon/client mode.
For instance, you can have the following in ~/.xsession :
#!/bin/dash # mouse speed sleep 5s && xset m 4 & # terminal daemon urxvtd -q -f -o # desktop export BROWSER=midori export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config lxsession
and then call uxrvtc instead of urxvt as terminal.
You might also want to add in ~/Xdefaults something like:
Rxvt*background: gray23 Rxvt*foreground: white Rxvt*troughColor: gray33 Rxvt*scrollColor: gray13 Rxvt*scrollstyle: plain Rxvt*visualBell: true Rxvt*saveLines: 2000 Rxvt*urlLauncher: midori Rxvt*color12: SkyBlue2
So far, I use it on a very old laptop. But I'm considering using it everywhere.
(side note : bash completion is getting bloated... it is best to use dash whenever sufficient - otherwise, on an old computer, you should at least make sure it only runs the default stuff, not every files in /etc/bash_completion.d/)