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Re:Terminal scrollback written to local disk, including remo... by azm on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @01:25PM (#3676491)
Is there any particular reason people don't use plain old xterm. I know that it does not provide tabs, but other than that what are the problems that people face when using xterm. I have had utf8 support, zoom and copy paste working on it forever.
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Re:Terminal scrollback written to local disk, including remo... by elwin on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @03:45PM (#3677115)
I ignored xterm because the defaults were ugly. Then I figured out how to use a nice font at a reasonable size and added tmux, and I haven't looked back.
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