Re: iPhone XQuartz?
Re: iPhone XQuartz?
- Subject: Re: iPhone XQuartz?
- From: "Ambrose Li" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:36:05 -0400
On 27/03/2008, Michael Parson <email@hidden> wrote:
> Indeed. I don't care what OS or Window Manager/Operating environment
> I'm working in. But when I need to do terminal work, I always prefer
> to use a real xterm, rather than OS X's Terminal.app, Gnome's ETerm
> (or whatever they're using these days), KDE's KTerm, whatever that
> abomination CDE used, etc. Eventually, they all do something wrong
> with the way they draw things on the screen, leave artifacts, something
> wrong, something I've never had to deal with when running an X11 xterm.
> No, I don't get transparent windows or background images, but I don't
> need those things, those do not improve my productivity. A functional
> terminal from which I can work does make me productive. I'd guess that
> something greater than 99% of my time in X11 (at least, on the Mac) is
> spent inside an xterm.
There is of course the opposite case too. I used to prefer the real xterm
myself, but when I have to work with Chinese (which is like 100% of the
time), I now always use mlterm (which *is* slower and more buggy). In
terms of flexible multilingual support, the real xterm indeed has fallen
behind others, and in terms of doing things wrong it's the other way
round and the way xterm does things is pretty horrible.
But as for MacOS X's Terminal.app, that'd be a different matter. Try
working with Chinese there; Terminal.app is totally unusable,
whereas in the real xterm you could at least get some work done :-)
--
cheers,
-ambrose
The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by
idiots. So SAD... (Sites that does spam filtering on mails sent to the
abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
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