Xterm

xterm is the final emulator of standard for the graphic Environnement X Window System. A user can simultaneously have several authorities of xterm in the same screen, each one of them offering independent Entrées/sorties for the process which are carried out there (these processes are usually Shell UNIX).

xterm is older than X Window System. He was written at the origin like an emulator of independent terminal for the stations VAXStation 100 (VS100) by Mark Vandevoorde, a student of Jim Gettys, during the summer 1984, whereas work on X began. It quickly became obvious that it would be more useful as a component of X than like programs independent. So it was rewritten for X. As Gettys tells it, (“one of the reasons for which the architecture of xterm is as horrible is as it was envisaged in the beginning that a single process is able to control several bill-posters VS100. ”)

After several years as a part of the implementation of reference of X, the principal effort of development then passed in XFree86 around 1996 (for a fork of the version implementing X 11R 6.3). It is now maintained by Thomas Dickey.

Many alternatives are also available. The majority of the emulators of terminals for X began like variations from xterm.

Nowadays, xterm is able to manage characters Unicode.

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External bonds

  • Page Internet of the project;

  • Page of handbook of xterm.
  • Banner page of the solution [[Mille-Xterm]]

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