Martin,Vic: sorry, you will get this twice. On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:47:04AM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote: > > Too bad xterm is useless. I am interested to know what you dislike about xterm. Some time last year I switched back to xterm after getting fed up with the brokeness of Konsole and older Gnome-terminals. The tabbed consoles features were neat, but screen is almost as good. I do miss the easy opening of URLs, but have found a partial work around with key bindings such as this: bash -c "mozilla `xclip -o`" The last time I used Gnome-terminal (or multi-terminal ??) was about a year ago and I found it buggy. There was some odd screen corruption when resizeing, and some occational problems handling unusual control characters. It was much better then Konsole though. Konsole had terrible font handling and was all but hardcoded to use the konsole-font. The handleing of profiles and settings was confused to say the least. Konsole (and KDE in general) does not handle multiple displays well. With dual displays it was always a guess where the Konsole would open. Both Gnome-terminal and Konsole did not respect the command line. In general xterm has better configuration options then either Konsole or Gnome-terminal. I did try rxvt, but at the time it did not support true type fonts and anti-aliasing. Xterm does. Here are my xterm resources for anyone interested: xterm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono xterm*faceSize: 13 xterm*foreground: grey94 xterm*cursorColor: yellow xterm*background: black xterm*scrollBar: on ! savelines is a signed 16bit int. This is undocumented AFAIK. xterm*saveLines: 32000 xterm*VT100*geometry: 85x25 xterm*vt100.scrollTtyOutput: false xterm*vt100.scrollKey: true xterm.utmpInhibit: true xterm.vt100.highlightSelection: true xterm.vt100.trimSelection: true ! thickness dosen't work despite docs ! xterm*Scrollbar.thickness: 4 ! with a width of 8 and geom of 85x25 ! xactly two xterms can be displayed side by side xterm*Scrollbar.width: 8 xterm*Scrollbar.backgroud: black xterm*Scrollbar.foreground: grey76 -- sg