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--- linux:xterm [2024-11-19 15:38] – created admin
+++ linux:xterm [2024-11-19 18:45] (current) – added xterm command to list fonts admin
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 xterm is an underrated terminal emulator for the X Window System. It's powerful, customizable and lightweight. It supports 256 colors and UTF-8. It does not support tabs, but that's something which is actually not really useful, I prefer multiple xterm windows and I also use workspaces extensively because I use the [[https://i3wm.org/|i3]] window manager.
-Once xterm is started it looks awful, has a tiny font and lacks some features. To enable all of that simply create file ''.Xresources'' in your home directory and paste the following content (change USERNAME on line 7 to your username). The "!" at the beginning of a line marks a comment.
+Once xterm is started it looks awful, has a tiny font and lacks some features. To enable all of that simply create file ''.Xresources'' in your home directory and paste the following content (change USERNAME on line 8 to your username). The "!" at the beginning of a line marks a comment.
 <code>
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 *customization: -color
 xterm*termName: xterm-256color
+xterm*utf8: 1
 #include "/home/USERNAME/.local/share/colorthemes/numix.xres"
-xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
+! truetype fonts are supported, you can also disable antialias
+xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono:antialias=true
+!xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
 xterm*faceSize: 10
 xterm*renderFont: true
+! adjust line spacing, 0.9 .. 1.5, default 1.0
+!XTerm.vt100.scaleHeight: 1.05
 ! VT Font Menu: Unreadable
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 ! VT font menu: Huge
 xterm*faceSize5: 14
+! bitmap fonts are set like this, iso10646 is an alias for Unicode
+!xterm*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
+! see also output of command "xterm -report-fonts"
 ! do not scroll when there is new input e.g. tail -f /var/syslog
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 ! zoom in/out/reset, works on main keyboard (not on numpad)
 ! + handy keyboard shortcuts to jump to the beginning/end of buffer
+! + Shift+mousebutton on selected text to open in default app
 xterm*vt100.Translations: #override \
 	Ctrl <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \n\
 	Ctrl <Key> plus: larger-vt-font() \n\
 	Ctrl <Key> 0: set-vt-font(d) \n\
-	Shift <KeyPress> Home:  scroll-to(begin) \n\
+	Ctrl <KeyPress> Home:  scroll-to(begin) \n\
-	Shift <KeyPress> End:   scroll-to(end)
+	Ctrl <KeyPress> End:   scroll-to(end) \n\
+	Shift <Btn1Up>: exec-formatted("xdg-open '%t'", PRIMARY)  select-start() select-end()
 xterm*highlightSelection: true
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 </code>
-And this is the content of ''.local/share/colorthemes/numix.xres''
+And this is the content of ''~/.local/share/colorthemes/numix.xres''
 <code>
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 After you have saved both files, run this command (as normal user, not root)
 ''xrdb -load .Xresources''
-and that's it! Now every new xterm will look nice and have some useful features enabled. Look at the content of ''.Xresources'', it is self-explanatory.
+and that's it! Now every new xterm will look nice and have some useful features enabled. Look at the content of ''.Xresources'', it is self-explanatory. Remember xterm has also 3 pop-up menus which can be accessed by Ctrl+mouse button (left/middle/right). Settings in those menus can be persistently enabled/disabled in the Xresources file.
-If you would like to use another color theme I recommend having a look at [[https://terminal.sexy/|Terminal Sexy]], which is a well done web app with support for Xresources color format.
+If you would like to use another color theme I recommend having a look at [[https://terminal.sexy/|Terminal Sexy]], which is a well done web app with support for Xresources color format. You can even make xterm transparent with a composite manager.