Experiments seem to show that it has the lowest keypress latency among all terminal emulators on Linux. The main reason I like using xterm, other than its bare bones simplicity, is its keypress latency. The region in between the two clicks is copied to PRIMARY. If you need the normal window manager clipboard behavior, choose Copy to clipboard in the VT menu.Ī cool trick to select a large body of text in XTerm is to left-click at the beginning of the text and right-click at the end. Like any classic X application, XTerm copies and pastes from the PRIMARY clipboard. One keyboard shortcut I like in xterm is Alt + Enter which toggles the fullscreen mode. This can also be set in its config file (see below). Invoke it with the -rv (reverse video) option to get black background and white foreground. All the menu options can also be set in its config file.īy default, xterm starts with white background and black foreground. The 3 menus you get are: main options (left mouse button), VT options (center button) and font options (right button). Instead, you get three different menus if you hold down the Ctrl key and click any one of your 3 mouse buttons. The latter is what you almost always need.īeing one of those early X programs, it does not have a toolbar or scrollbar.
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See my config file below for how to do this.Īlong with the classic xterm, there is also xterm with Unicode support that you can invoke as uxterm. Terminal apps read this variable to decide how to show their colors, so this might be essential. You may need to configure it to set the TERM environment variable correctly as xterm-256color. It was explicitly written to emulate the old DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 terminals. Here are some factoids I discovered about XTerm that may interest you to use it: It is so old that it is in fact a bit older than the X window system itself! Today it ships as one of the quintessential programs of the X window system. XTerm is a classic terminal emulator for the X window system.