It also provides tektronix 4014 emulation for programs that cannot use the window system directly. The change log shows when and why features were added or changed see also. In computing, xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the x window system. With this version, either icon can be configured for the desktop use. The first parameter pp identifies the resource to setreset.
The standard terminal emulator for the x window system. The documentation for this control sequence in xterm is available on invisible island see osc ps for ps 52. Others use the classname xterm or xterm and with regards to fontsize. It provides dec vt102vt220 and selected features from higherlevel terminals such as vt320vt420vt520 vtxxx. The xterm program is the standard terminal emulator for the x window system. It is a toolkit for developing guilike application software that runs under a terminal. It provides dec vt102vt220 and tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cant use the window system directly. The documentation isnt amazing, but essentially the data is emitted as base64 and is decoded back to utf8 by base64dec. I develop either alone or with others and maintain several programs that relate to my professional interests. Alpine alt linux arch linux centos debian fedora kaos mageia mint openmandriva opensuse openwrt pclinuxos slackware solus ubuntu. If the underlying operating system supports terminal resizing capabilities for example, the sigwinch signal in systems derived from 4. The xterm program is the standard terminal emulator for the. Other than the limitations which the font server may impose, the double size characters are drawn properly.
Pv m csi pp m setreset key modifier options, xterm. Xterm control sequences control bytes, characters, and sequences eightbit controls can have intermediate, etc. Xfree86 xterm can also generate its own linedrawing characters, which normally are missing from fixed fonts except for those that were designed for xterm. If the window is the focus window, then the text cursor is highlighted no matter where the pointer is. Console virtual terminal sequences windows console microsoft. Windows console with ansi colors handling super user.
Xterm control sequences edward moy university of california, berkeley revised by stephen gildea x consortium 1994 thomas dickey xfree86 project 19962006 invisible island. More information about terminal sequences can be found at and at. See this discussion of the icons used for xterm to support xterm, i also work on vttest luit allows xterm to support character encodings other than iso88591 and utf8 x. Singlebyte controls can be handled separately from multibyte control sequences because ecma48srules are unambiguous. Set or reset resource values used by xterm to decide whether to construct escape sequences holding information about the modifiers pressed with a given key.
Free and opensource software portal list of terminal emulators luit, a character set. Thomas dickey is the maintainerdeveloper of xterm, the standard terminal emulator for the x window system. Gentoo is a trademark of the gentoo foundation, inc. It provides dec vt102 and tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cant use the window system directly.
The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the x window system. Xterm automatically highlights the text cursor when the pointer enters the window selected and unhighlights it when the pointer leaves the window unselected. This version implements isoansi colors using the new color model i. Increase compatibility with xterms supported terminfo. For my future sanity, the text on invisible island changed. Some keybindings used by psreadline arent getting through. Im overwhelmed by the manpage of xterm since im just a beginner.
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