Long I was looking for the right terminal for my purposes. I am making a follower of the philosophy of Gnome in my opinion, with its DE everything right. But this is probably a matter of taste. It was for me so close to the gnome-terminal to be used with transparency. As drop terminal Guake was used.

I work long time with the i3wm and since the transition to my new Lenovo T470P I wanted a little take care of the beauty and functionality of my system. I started to deal me the terminals and came across a post, the treated a points, of me has long been a thorn in. It's about the text selection in a terminal. When one lot with i3wm to work seeking for more and more solutions even less having to reach his hand on the mouse. The solution to this provides the terminal urxvt. To my knowledge it is the only terminal that allows the keyboard to select and copy text. A really great feature through the extension by Perl scripts. A great part. Urxvt replaced in combination with i3_quaketerm now all regular and drop terminals in my system. In addition i3_quaketerm is also very nice to look