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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers What is your favorite terminal? Post 302944963 by bakunin on Sunday 24th of May 2015 06:36:47 PM

05-24-2015

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I like the 3151 myself, mostly because it was able to cope with the weird cabling the RS/6000 needed (you'd need three gender changers and 5 crossovers to make a normal DEC VT220 work) and because the TERMCAP database entries for "common" terminals (like VT100, et al.) were - probably deliberately - FUBAR in AIX. I might even have one still somewhere down in the depth of my attic.

For work i use either a workstation capable of X or - if i have to use one of these Windoze-contraptions - Opentext Exceed, so i can use XTerms. Xdefaults are badly misconfigured in AIX and Linux as well and out of the box XTerms are ugly and cumbersome to work with, but with a little tweaking XTerms are far better (and the same everywhere) than AIXterms (IBMs replacement), dtterms (CDEs replacement) or the G- K- and whatever-terms Linux throws at one. There is nothing as original as the original itself, IMHO.

Here is what i use as Xdefaults for XTerm:

Code:

! /*--------------------- XTerm ----------------------------------*/
XTerm*background:       steelblue
XTerm*foreground:       wheat
XTerm*cursorColor:      black
XTerm*font:             -ibm-roman-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1
! XTerm*iconImage:        /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xlogo16
XTerm*fullCursor:       true
XTerm*saveLines:                2000
XTerm*scrollBar:              false
XTerm*scrollPosition: right             // seem's not to work
! this is for displaying german umlauts
!XTerm*fontMenu*font1*Label:   ISO8859-Charset
!XTerm*VT100*font1: -ibm--medium-r-medium--20-14-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1

And here are the calls for my preferred XTerm colour schemes, the first one is for editing, the second is my "root window":

Code:

xterm -fg rgb:20/D0/C0 -bg rgb:30/30/50 -cr wheat -fn rom14 -geometry 80x40 -ls
xterm -fg thistle1 -bg rgb:4d/28/4d -cr thistle1 -fn rom14 -geometry 80x40 -ls

What this looks like can be seen here.

bakunin

PS: since this came up: i started my programming career on IBM OS/360 as an Assembler programmer in the late seventies. This Assembler was the first language i learned.

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APPRES(1)						      General Commands Manual							 APPRES(1)

NAME

       appres - list X application resource database

SYNOPSIS

       appres [class [instance]] [-1] [toolkitoptions]

DESCRIPTION

       The  appres  program  prints the resources seen by an application (or subhierarchy of an application) with the specified class and instance
       names.  It can be used to determine which resources a particular program will load.  For example,

	    % appres  XTerm

       will list the resources that any xterm program will load.  If no application class is specified, the class -AppResTest- is used.

       To match a particular instance name, specify an instance name explicitly after the class name, or use the normal Xt  toolkit  option.   For
       example,

	    % appres  XTerm  myxterm
       or
	    % appres  XTerm  -name  myxterm

       To  list  resources  that  match  a subhierarchy of an application, specify hierarchical class and instance names.  The number of class and
       instance components must be equal, and the instance name should not be specified with a toolkit option.	For example,

	    % appres  Xman.TopLevelShell.Form  xman.topBox.form

       will list the resources of widgets of xman topBox hierarchy.  To list just the resources matching a specific level in  the  hierarchy,  use
       the -1 option.  For example,

	    % appres  XTerm.VT100  xterm.vt100	-1

       will list the resources matching the xterm vt100 widget.

SEE ALSO

       X(7), xrdb(1), listres(1)

AUTHOR

       Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium

X Version 11							   appres 1.0.3 							 APPRES(1)