From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 6 19:02:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA16747 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 19:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA16735 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 19:02:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA25768; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:31:06 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971007113106.08628@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:31:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wei Weng Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: better xterm for freebsd? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Wei Weng on Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 05:04:30PM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 05:04:30PM -0400, Wei Weng wrote: > hi > is there soemthing like color_xterm or nxterm in linux for freebsd instead > of xterm or rxvt? Both of them are too slow, How do you determine that? > and xterm doesn't even have a scroll bar. It does if you tell it to have one. man xterm: $ xterm -sb The xterm under FreeBSD is *identical* with that under Linux, assuming you're both using the same X server (either XFree86 or XI Graphics ($)). The performance depends mainly on your hardware. If you want xterm to display colour, set your TERM variable to xterm-color: TERM=xterm-color xterm -sb Greg