Xorg7/xterm

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Introduction to Xorg7/xterm

The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. Xterm is not distributed as part of the modular Xorg. You must retrieve it from the upstream source.

Project Homepage: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/

Dependencies

Required

• libXaw from Libraries

Optional

• FreeType

Non-Multilib

Compile this package:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG --enable-wide-chars \
    --with-app-defaults=${XORG_PREFIX}/share/X11/app-defaults &&
make

Install this package:

make install &&
make install-ti

Multilib

This package does not install any libraries so only one installation is needed.

64Bit

Compile this package:

USE_ARCH=64 CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" \
./configure ${XORG_CONFIG64} --enable-wide-chars \
    --with-app-defaults=${XORG_PREFIX}/share/X11/app-defaults &&
make

Install this package:

make install &&
make install-ti

Configuring

cat >> $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm << "EOF"
*VT100*locale: true
*VT100*faceName: Monospace
*VT100*faceSize: 10
EOF

Next install rman

Configure

When Xterm loads, it looks into ~/.bashrc for profile information. This is to allow a each user to add custom items to his/her xterm. We simply point this to /etc/profile. This will need to be added for each user.

cat > ~/.bashrc << "EOF"
source /etc/profile
EOF

Contents

Installed Programs:	resize, uxterm, xterm

Short Description

resize	prints a shell command for setting the TERM and TERMCAP environment variables to indicate the current size of xterm window.
uxterm	wrapper script to start xterm in UTF-8 locales.
xterm	a terminal emulator for the X Window System.