X-term


Table of Contents

Xterm 
xterm colors 
xterm FAQ 
cmd:xterm 
Usage 
Quick Help 
Help 
title for xterm 
title for xterm 
tiny xterm menus 
xterm menus too small 
xterm menus too small 
xterm menus too small 
Xterms lacking colour 
Xterms lacking colour 
cmd:cxterm 
Info 
Source 
Related Urls 
Installation 
Comments 
Installed files 
xterm color scheme 
xterm color scheme 
color xterm 
color xterm 
xterm: input method problem 
xterm: input method problem 
make xterm stays 
Current Directory in XTERM Window Title 
Current Directory in XTERM Window Title 
rxvt can't use xfs fonts 

Xterm 

http://dickey.his.com/xterm/

ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/ ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.tar.gz

which points to xterm-170.tgz 601 KB 10/13/2002 7:14:00 PM

xterm FAQ 

http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html

Ongoing/future work 

  • double-high/double-wide characters

    I have implemented double size characters in stages:
        - Like Kermit, XFree86 xterm can show normal characters spaced at the proper intervals.
        - If your font server cooperates (e.g., X11R6), you can display many fixed fonts in double-size, though not all.
        - XFree86 xterm can also generate its own line-drawing characters, which normally are missing from fixed fonts except for those that were designed for xterm.
    - Other than the limitations which the font server may impose, the double size characters are drawn properly.
  • soft (downloadable) fonts
  • search scrollback It would be nice to be able to search the scrollback buffer.
  • printer interface

    Done, except for the corresponding support in the VT52 emulation. It would be nice to have a dialog to control this.
  • allow alternate libraries for popup-menus and dialogs

    My configure script currently provides tests for the variations of
    Athena widgets (Xaw3D, neXtaw). I intend to make additional changes to
    support Motif scrollbars and menus. Motif requires a different style of
    interface for the menus: binding a popup menu to control right mouse may
    cause the server to hang. As an intermediate step, I implemented a
    toolbar for the Athena widgets. In turn, that works well enough except
    with XFree86 4.x: the Xaw library geometry management is broken. (Other
    implementations of the Athena widgets work well enough).
  • blinking text.

    Just for completeness (though no one seems to want this feature).
  • Double-width font support for UTF-8 mode (for CJK users)
  • popup window that shows hex code for content of a character cell and hexadecimal keyboard entry for all Unicode characters (ISO 14755)
  • UTF-8 combining character support (simple glyph overstriking only)
  • correct cut&paste of TAB character