%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ xterm xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &xterm-md5sum; Download size: &xterm-size; Estimated disk space required: &xterm-buildsize; Estimated build time: &xterm-time; xterm Dependencies Required Optional User Notes: Install xterm by running the following commands: TERMINFO=/usr/lib/terminfo ./configure $XORG_CONFIG \ --enable-luit --with-wide-chars \ --with-app-default=$XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/app-defaults&& make This package does not come with a test suite. Now, as the root user: make install && make install-ti TERMINFO=/usr/lib/terminfo: This ensures that the xterm terminfo file is installed to the system terminfo database when the installation prefix is not /usr. --with-app-defaults=...: Sets the location for the app-defaults directory. --enable-luit: Enables the luit filter for unicode translation. --with-wide-chars: Adds support for wide characters. make install-ti: This command installs corrected terminfo description files for use with xterm. There are two ways to configure xterm. You can add X resource definitions to the user's ~/.Xresources file, or add them to the system-wide $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xterm file. In order for xterm to follow the locale settings in the environment and use TrueType fonts, add the following definitions as the root user: cat >> $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm << "EOF" *VT100*locale: true *VT100*faceName: Monospace *VT100*faceSize: 10 EOF Installed Programs resize, uxterm, and xterm Short Descriptions resize prints a shell command for setting the TERM and TERMCAP environment variables to indicate the current size of xterm window. resize uxterm is a wrapper script to start xterm with the proper settings in UTF-8 locales. uxterm xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. xterm