What is the Xterm terminal? (X11)

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About

xterm 1) is the terminal emulator 2) that was originally developed as part of the X display server called also X(7)

xterm (pronounced eks-term) is a specific program, not a generic item. It is the standard X terminal emulator program.

Putty and Mintty uses Xterm as terminal.

For instance, when you start the Cygwin X server automatically an xterm session appear and you can make a connection to a Linux Operating system with ssh in order to show the remote client on your local system.

Copy

  • VT Option > Select to Clipboard
  • Pasted and copy when the user presses the middle mouse button

Web/Javascript

You can get Xterm in the browser via the xtermjs project.

1)
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ xterm
2)
emulator because it's not hardware but software




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