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I use it for cross-site compatibility primarily. I connect to hundreds of various *nix servers. Various Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and AIX. I don't notice font d
by UI_at_80x24 4y ago
I use it for cross-site compatibility primarily.
I connect to hundreds of various *nix servers. Various Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and AIX.
I don't notice font differences much (I'm half blind, so everything is rather large on my screen (and all fonts are kinda fuzzy)).
But what I do notice is that xterm is the only program that shows things like ncurses (i.e. mc, tree, etc.), and tmux, and language/locale correctly on everything.
I can get 1-2 of the above items but never all of them. (Konsole does a great job too, but xterm opens faster on my i3 setup.)
I've manipulated my various dotfiles, and tried multiple combinations but xterm works 100% of the time.
- bitwize 4y agoXterm is a little behind the curve in some areas. For example I'm not sure that it properly handles color emoji -- and many modern hipster dev tools of the sort likely to shit ANSI color codes to stdout without even bothering to check if stdout is a tty, are also prone to using emoji for things like checkmarks for passing tests. (Homebrew, in particular, uses U+1f37a, BEER MUG, to indicate it has completed operations.) But maybe you don't care about that. 90% of the time, I don't.
- UI_at_80x24 4y agoLuckily I haven't encountered that. I'm almost of the opinion that all my servers should have locale LANG set to C and avoid all the UTF-8 headaches. I don't want my servers to be cutesy.