From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 14 06:09:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25053 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 06:09:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA25048 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 06:09:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bkogawa@primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25923; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 07:09:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from ip217.sjc.primenet.com(206.165.96.217), claiming to be "foo.primenet.com" via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd025905; Sat Feb 14 07:09:25 1998 Received: from localhost (bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id GAA29237; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 06:12:20 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: foo.primenet.com: bkogawa owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 06:12:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" To: Greg Lehey cc: dallas.tex@airmail.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XTERM In-Reply-To: <19980214200344.17914@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > No, the standard xterm does do colour. You need to set the TERM > environment to xterm-color. There's also a resource which governs the Hm... didn't know that (obviously!) Thanks! > > rxvt is also half the memory size of xterm, so it's good even if you > > don't need color. > > So what doesn't it do that xterm does? Hm... Tektronix graphics. XTerm mouse support (the one you can use to send mouse clicks to the app running in the xterm window, not the cut and paste, which is supported). Session logging, and "toolkit style configurability" (dunno what the last one means, exactly--the last two are from the man page) . The popup menus (to change font size in rxvt, you use an alt-keystroke). The only ones I have used in xterm are the mouse thing (rarely) and logging, which is useful at work sometimes. The small size was particularly useful on the first FreeBSD machine I used X with, a 486 with 8 megs of memory. Here's what they look like on my current system: root 29168 0.0 5.4 540 1632 p0 S 6:06AM 0:00.31 xterm root 28579 0.0 2.0 352 604 v0 S 5:50AM 0:01.21 rxvt bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message