xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System.
This package is provided for testing the completed Xorg installation.
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A monospace TTF or OTF font such as Dejavu fonts
Emacs-29.1, PCRE-8.45 or pcre2-10.42, Valgrind-3.22.0 and man2html
Install xterm by running the following commands:
sed -i '/v0/{n;s/new:/new:kb=^?:/}' termcap &&
printf '\tkbs=\\177,\n' >> terminfo &&
TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo \
./configure $XORG_CONFIG \
--with-app-defaults=/etc/X11/app-defaults &&
makeThis package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install && make install-ti && mkdir -pv /usr/share/applications && cp -v *.desktop /usr/share/applications/
sed -i ... termcap, printf ... >> terminfo: These commands modify the terminal description so that the Backspace key is expected to send the character with ASCII code 127. This is done for consistency with the Linux console.
TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo: This ensures
that the xterm terminfo files are installed to the
system terminfo database.
--with-app-defaults=...: Sets the location
for the app-defaults
directory.
make install-ti: This command installs corrected terminfo description files for use with xterm.
There are two ways to configure xterm. You can add the X resource
definitions to the user's ~/.Xresources file, or
add them to the system-wide
$XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/app-defaults/Xterm file.
In order for xterm to follow the locale settings in the environment,
use TrueType fonts, and follow the Linux convention about the code sent by
the Backspace key, add the following definitions as the
root user:
cat >> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm << "EOF"
*VT100*locale: true
*VT100*faceName: Monospace
*VT100*faceSize: 10
*backarrowKeyIsErase: true
*ptyInitialErase: true
EOFis a wrapper script to set up xterm with a KOI8-R locale | |
prints a shell command for setting the TERM and TERMCAP environment variables to indicate the current size of xterm window | |
is a wrapper script that modifies the current locale to use UTF-8 and starts xterm with the proper settings | |
is a terminal emulator for the X Window System |