Re: X terminal recommendations (was Re: Mailing list unusually inactive?)
Seconded. You don't even need xrdb. You can configure quite a lot with
xterm. This file sits in my home directory and configures menus, colors,
fonts, and even keystroke/click behavior without having to load it with
xrdb (because ~ is one of the places libXt looks for resource files):
https://github.com/Anthropohedron/dotfiles/blob/master/XTerm
--Gregory
On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 03:01:29PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Hi Dan.
>
> I'm enjoying your list. I'm not sure why you note that xterm cannot
> config the colors, and maybe I misunderstand, but I've set xterm colors
> via xrdb. In fact, I use xrdb to change the colors on both xterm and
> rxvt to match the "Linux console color palette" (especially rxvt with
> its horrid default color scheme):
>
> https://www.n0nb.us/blog/2020/02/coping-with-color-on-the-linux-console-and-xterm-and-friends/
>
> For the record, I use Gnome Terminal almost exclusively. I use xterm
> with an amateur radio logging program as xterm doesn't reserve various
> key combinations for its own use as Gnome Terminal does that the program
> uses.
>
> Horses for courses.
>
> - Nate
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