Yes, XTerm is my main terminal, it works and it has nice options, especially the popup menus for changing font size on the fly. >This is one thing i don't get.

Yes, XTerm is my main terminal, it works and it has nice options, especially the popup menus for changing font size on the fly. >This is one thing i don't get. All that old X stuff No kidding, if people really read and understood the manual for xmessage(1), you will quickly see it has no competitor in what people call "modern". I use it a lot in many interactive shell scripts. >But boy are there a lot of X haters. yes and getting worse and worse with wayland and desktop.org, the bane of X. I use X and once I cannot use fvwm (I use that too) on Linux, I am off to a BSD.