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I've been using X11-based terminal emulators for 30 years now, and I can't recall ever having the temrinal emulator itself crash.
by dsr_ 4y ago
I've been using X11-based terminal emulators for 30 years now, and I can't recall ever having the temrinal emulator itself crash.
- imiric 4y agoGood for you. I've experienced them plenty with urxvt[1], and now occasionally with st. I'm pretty sure the st crash is due to a patch, but I've just been lazy to fix it. It's rare and not disruptive enough, so it's tolerable. [1]: Enough to make me stop using urxvtd, which took down all my client terminals with it...
- neilv 4y agoAre you running Linux and Xorg, or something else? Have you ruled out flaky RAM? Reason I ask: I don't recall ever having urxvt crash, in many years of use, and counting. Nor recall a crash in earlier decades of use of other versions of rxvt and xterm. I'd expect them to crash, but they haven't.
- imiric 4y agoYes, Linux and Xorg. I doubt it's flaky RAM, as this happened on at least 2 machines. I've been using my current daily driver since 2018, and haven't experienced crashes with most other tools I use.
- hn92726819 4y agoThey might be conflating urxvt with urxvtd. I have had urxvtd crash before and have never used it again. Urxvt has never crashed in the 5 years I've used it
- imiric 4y agoNo, I've definitely had both crash. I kept using just urxvt so that I only lose one terminal window, but eventually found st to be much more stable, and better overall.
- neilv 4y agoInteresting. You might want to enable core dumps, and the next time you get a crash of a program, load it up in `gdb` and at least get a stack trace. That probably won't give instant blame among a C program and libraries, but it might at least point in the right direction for why it's crashing.