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Xterm vs Terminal.app
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Xterm vs Terminal.app


  • Subject: Xterm vs Terminal.app
  • From: Ernst Mulder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:24:55 +0100

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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