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XTerm

XTerm is a terminal emulator for X11. It comes with X11 and provides full VT100 emulation! However its defaults are not that great.

Tweaks

Fix ctrl key

To enable Emacs style key combinations, add XTerm.VT100.modifyOtherKeys: 1 to ~/.Xdefaults

Change the font

Run xfontsel and add XTerm*font:<font line> to your ~/.Xresources.

  • Ex: XTerm*font: -schumacher-clean-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Disable the scrollbar

xterm*ScrollBar: off

No bold font

xterm*font: fixed

Fix alt key

XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true

Fix backspace

See https://hypexr.org/linux_ruboff.html

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