Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- Subject: Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- From: Bruce Truax <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:11:17 -0500
Three very important reasons for me are:
1. xterm and xgterm support TEKTRONIX graphics support and there are a lot
of scientific programs in UNIX that use this mode for plotting data.
2. Much of the unix use GUI displays using the X11 GUI widgets. These
programs need to be started from an X11 environment. You can do this either
by entering the correct commands in the X11.app application menu or just as
frequently, you want to or have to start these from the command line so that
you can specify command line options.
3. The same software mentioned in 2 can be run on a remote computer and
displayed locally. The only way to do this is to ssh -x to a remote
computer from an xterm and start the GUI software. I do this to remotely
run a astronomical telescope written in X11. In fact, if OSX allowed for a
client/server model like X11 it would be an order of magnitude more useful,
and it is already the best OS available.
Bruce Truax
On 1/21/03 1:24 PM, "Ernst Mulder" <email@hidden> eloquently 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.
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