Beartooth wrote: > On another list, one poster made a marginal enthusiastic remark, saying > > > I love the new 256-color + transparency support for xterm, it works great > > in Fedora Core 6 using mrxvt. > > Very Dumb Question : is there somewhere I can get a rundown on the > differing virtues of whatever-all terminal emulators are available? Well, http://lwn.net/Articles/88161/ dates from 2004, but is a very good overview. The comments are worth reading, too. Warning -- gnome-terminal *supports* 256 colours, but the default TERM setting of xterm doesn't. And there's no way (that I've found) to change the default TERM setting without recompiling. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | [Training spam filters] is somewhat like house-training a aprilcottage.co.uk | puppy: it's a painful process, involving contact with | unpleasant materials, and with a messy failure mode. | And, somewhere in the process, something you care about | is likely to get chewed up. -- Jonathan Corbet, lwn.net
