Lightweight terminal emulator?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-09-15, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Not sure if this will be what you are looking for, but after
> having issues with aterm myself I discovered the urxvt
> terminal emulator. It is in the package 
>
> rxvt-unicode

Yes!  That sounds like a good option.  I used rxvt for many
years until it was broken in Mandrake a few years back.

> It appears to have most of the same options as aterm, but is
> utf-8 compliant. One little quirk, which may or may not be
> important to you, is that new instances don't increment utmp
> and thus don't show up in "who" or "w" output. If you change
> it thus:
>
> $ sudo chown root:utmp /usr/bin/urxvt
> $ sudo chmod g+s /usr/bin/urxvt
>
> you get
>
> -rwxr-sr-x  1 root utmp 180776 2005-03-21 21:51 /usr/bin/urxvt
>
> Then it behaves like aterm in this respect.

The who/w behavior doesn't really matter to me, but that's good
to know.  Thanks!

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