Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- Subject: Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- From: "David Orlovich" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 08:33:35 +1300
I think it's because people (including me!) don't know how to set it up
properly. I always use Terminal.app for text things but if I decide I
want to have a quick game of xgalaga, I run X11.app and type xgalaga &
in an xterm window. If I type it in Terminal.app it just says Cannot
open diplay "(null)". So I need to get an understanding of how to fix
that but haven't worked it out yet... I think if someone posted a good
paragraph on how to make a program running in Terminal.app call an X11
window for a graphical display, then everyone would use Terminal.app
and not xterm. Well FWIW ... that's what I reckon anyway :)
Cheers, David.
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 07:24 AM, Ernst Mulder wrote:
I was wondering about that too. I thought I was probably missing some
very
good reason for using xterm. I'm all with Terminal.app myself. So why
do so
many people want to use xterm so much?
I've been wondering why suddenly so many people are so intent on using
xterm. Xterm is really a very primitive application with a virtually
unusable default configuration.
It is like using twm as a window manager. No one in their right mind
will do the latter, and no one in their right mind should use xterm if
an alternative like Apple's Terminal.app is available.
_______________________________________________
x11-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/x11-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
_______________________________________________
x11-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/x11-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.