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I've seen a lot of terminal emulators as a programmer - PuTTy, Gnome Terminal, KDE Konsole, Terminal.app, iTerm, etc. Someone showed me an 'xterm' for the first time today. I've used these other terminals extensively, but I'm curious as to what unique advantages or features that 'xterm' would offer over any other terminal emulator. That is, what can it do that other terminal emulators can't?
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It's going to be more xterm compatible than any xterm-compatible terminal. It's more likely to pass According to Wikipedia, "Most terminal emulators for X started as variations on xterm." So, I would say its chief advantage is compatibility. | |||
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xterm is universal and it will be available in any X11 installation. It is functional (even including things you will never use, such as Tektronix mode), but mostly bare-bones. It doesn't deal with things you might expect from Gnome Terminal like transparent backgrounds. You can think of choosing between xterm and the things you list similar to how you might choose between | ||||
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For me, it's about low weight. Very minimal interface, and just gets out of your way. I run Konsole for most things, but for some windows that i need to just have open and check on every once in a while, i'll run in an XTerm, Ctrl-Right click and make the font Tiny. | |||
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