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I use a mixed environment. My servers are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and about 5 different linux distros. I can only get consistent screen output if I use Xterm. rxvt,

I use a mixed environment. My servers are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and about 5 different linux distros. I can only get consistent screen output if I use Xterm. rxvt, Alcrtty (sp?), Konsole, Gnome Terminal and all others that I have tried mungle ncurses, and/or other screen decorations (like using ASCII +------+, or TAB/Space, "decorations"). Even if I do get rxvt dialed in from one client, if I connect from a different workstation with a different client it's all a mess again. I know xterm is the slowest of the bunch, but it always works with minimal putzing.

AstroNoise58 6y ago
Most "modern" terminals are surprisingly buggy (for lack of a better word), that is, they do not conform to the VT100-series specs (and less documented, but well known quirks). Here's a look at some of them: https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-of-Zutty https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-...
padthai 6y ago
> I know xterm is the slowest of the bunch, but it always works with minimal putzing. I though that Xterm was the fastest in terms of latency and configured adequately, pretty going dealing with big amounts of text: https://anarc.at/blog/2018-05-04-terminal-emulators-2/ https://anarc.at/blog/2018-05-04-terminal-emulators-2/ Xterm*fastScroll: true I am really grateful for Xterm, it is a great default for all my machines.
Aloha 6y ago
The only way I've found to get consistency is use GNU screen as a translator.
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