xterm rules [LWN.net]

xterm rules

Posted Feb 3, 2006 19:40 UTC (Fri) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: xterm rules by eru
Parent article: Openbox: A lightweight window manager (Linux.com)

I think scratchbox.org people still have some kind of a "prize"
for the person who discovers why large (distro-sized) compilations
die in the middle (of compiling X window system) when starting them
from the gnome-terminal and why compilations succeeded when done
from the xterm or linux console...

(It wasn't lack of memory, the machines had 1GB of ram. Doubling
memory from 1/2GB to full 1GB halved the re-compile time.)

Btw. I have the dim recollection that xterm should support unicode
characters (but not bi-directional text etc. that gnome-terminal
supports).

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xterm rules

Posted Feb 14, 2006 5:18 UTC (Tue) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link]

Btw. I have the dim recollection that xterm should support unicode characters (but not bi-directional text etc. that gnome-terminal supports).

It can; see the uxterm script, for example. But I believe the upstream comment was about variable-width Unicode fonts, and I'm not sure xterm really supports those. Then again, I've never tried...I like fixed-width. :-)

Greg