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xterm, because it comes with OpenBSD. xterm is bloated, but finding (or writing) something more suitable would be a pain. Rarely urxvt if a silly game needs it; urxvt buffers better; you can see a flicker in xterm if the code is bad and sprays escape sequences, a lot. Otherwise not urxvt as there are a few annoyances I'd have to figure out how to fix, and there's no tuits there, especially given that xterm is mostly good enough.
On the 2009 macbook with the spinny metal disk (RIP 2022) it was some version of iTerm, though that was problematic as one could not actually disable colors; you could only set all the light colors to white and dark colors to black, and then readability might suffer if something did something problematic. xterm meanwhile you can put xterm*colorMode:false into the ~/.Xdefaults file and you're good. Sometimes bloat is handy, if there's a knob you need.
I have looked around, though not much:
So, xterm. Eh.
CWM is kinda negligent on window decorations, if you're wondering why there is not a title bar. More room for xterm that way.
Probably if you are younger you might want to look around more as you may not have yet found something that works for you? Looking around too much gets into the "maybe the grass is greener over there?" territory, so there is probably a Goldilocks zone of looking around but not too much.
Excitement city.
