XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought

Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by UI_at_80x24 on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:17PM (#25734651)

I use a mixed environment. My servers are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and about 5 different linux distros.

I can only get consistent screen output if I use Xterm. rxvt, Alcrtty (sp?), Konsole, Gnome Terminal and all others that I have tried mungle ncurses, and/or other screen decorations (like using ASCII +------+, or TAB/Space, "decorations").

Even if I do get rxvt dialed in from one client, if I connect from a different workstation with a different client it's all a mess again.

I know xterm is the slowest of the bunch, but it always works with minimal putzing.

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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by AstroNoise58 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:23PM (#25736014)

Most "modern" terminals are surprisingly buggy (for lack of a better word), that is, they do not conform to the VT100-series specs (and less documented, but well known quirks). Here's a look at some of them: https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-...

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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by padthai on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:35PM (#25738570)

> I know xterm is the slowest of the bunch, but it always works with minimal putzing.

I though that Xterm was the fastest in terms of latency and configured adequately, pretty going dealing with big amounts of text:

https://anarc.at/blog/2018-05-04-terminal-emulators-2/

Xterm*fastScroll: true

I am really grateful for Xterm, it is a great default for all my machines.

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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by Aloha on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:38PM (#25741951)

The only way I've found to get consistency is use GNU screen as a translator.

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