Uninstall uxterm and xterm5/3/2023 ![]() Having PRIMARY andĬLIPBOARD is a good thing and once you get used to it, it’s like having two If you are enabling this, re-think this once again. If you really like this, you can set this permanently: XTerm*selectToClipboard: true You can also configure xterm to copy text to CLIPBOARD with Select toĬlipboard VT menu option, then you can use Control + V in Firefox or Chrome. Paste it using middle mouse click (or Control+Shift). Xterm is a typical X WindowĪpplication and users are supposed to select text into PRIMARY selection and Linux geeks already know the PRIMARY selection and the CLIPBOARD and how to If you want antialias, just delete that particular part. You have been warned, if you really like to use xft fonts, here is an example: xterm*faceName: Inconsolata:size=10:antialias=false If you want to preview Truetype fonts, just use the item from the In my opinion and rendering of these is slower (e.g. Xterm does support truetype fonts, although I do not use them. Platforms as it is considered as a high security risk. Note this feature might not be available on all You can enable logging in the main menu (Control + left click) which saves all Click again and guess what, you are back. You can use Show Alternate Screen from the VT Menu (Control + middle click)Īnd you are there. How to show it so you are able to copy something from there? Well, So you are running a vim or less program and the previous content is allĬovered. Some of these are available in the VT menu (Control + middle click) so you canĬhange them on the fly. You can configure color of your pointer and even cursor (blinking and color): XTerm*pointerColor: white I will go through a few of them in the next paragraphs. There are many options and lots of them are Just hit Control key and left click, right click or click with middle buttonĪnd you have plenty of options there. Using those, the first thing I usually did was to hide those. An example: *background: rgb:00/00/00ĭo you miss menu from Gnome-terminal or Konsole? I don’t. Subjective, it’s better to browse or generate your own color scheme. Update 2020: All colors can be set in the configuration file. ![]() Overriding this variable means there is something wrong with your xterm setup. Note: Never set TERM variable manually, always let your terminal set it. ![]() To see what is your status, just execute the following command within Likely start in the 256 colors mode, so you really do not need to changeĪnything. 256 colorsīy default xterm does support 256 colors. Make sure the last part is set to “1”, this makes sure it’s UNICODE font. Searching, install Terminus font (every single distribution has this one) and But if you don’t want to bother with font You can use xfontsel to select appropriate font, just choose the second latest Google this, if you want more information, but in short - ISO 10646 There is one thing, you need to set correct codepage for your font which is Xdefaults (for sake of simplicity I will always refer only to. If you want to start xterm always in unicode, just add this to. Starting it with -u8 option or using uxterm wrapper (which essentially does Xterm supports UTF-8 by default, you really do not need to do anything except Me, since I read all my e-mails in mutt and I hate copying links.ĭuring migration, I noticed several nice features of xterm so I decided to Year (2012), xterm can finally open URLs nicely. Last week I migrated from urxvt to xterm, because I noticed that beginning last
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