• Contents
  • What is XTerm?
  • Who wrote XTerm?
  • What is a VT220?
    • Why a VT220?
    • What is a State Table?
  • What platforms does it run on?
  • What is the latest version?
  • What versions are available?
  • Comparing versions, by counting controls
  • How do I ...
    • How do I change the font size?
    • How do I print the screen?
    • How do I set up function keys?
    • How do I set the title?
    • How do I make the cursor blink?
  • Frequent problems
    • Starting xterm, or not
      • XTerm does not run (no available pty's)
      • I need /etc/termcap
      • Why does $LD_LIBRARY_PATH get reset?
      • Why do the -e and -ls options not work together?
      • Why is my screen size not set?
      • Why are the menus tiny?
    • Font problems
      • My terminal doesn't show box characters
      • The bold font is ugly
      • I see little dots on the screen
      • My terminal doesn't display Cyrillic characters
      • I see boxes instead of characters in uxterm
      • The first popup menu is very slow
        • Details
        • Solution
        • Limitations
    • Keyboard problems
      • Why can't I input 8-bit characters?
      • Why doesn't my delete key work?
      • Why did my delete key stop working?
      • Well, how can I set my delete key?
      • Why doesn't my keypad work?
      • Why can't I use the pageup/pagedown keys?
      • Why can't I use the home/end keys?
      • Why can't I use the cursor keys in (whatever) shell?
      • Alt-keys do not work in bash
    • Colors and other graphic rendition
      • My terminal doesn't recognize color
      • What $TERM should I use?
      • Reverse video is not reset
      • My colors changed in vim
      • Aren't bright colors the same as bold?
      • Why doesn't xterm support italics?
      • "grep --color" does not show the right output
      • FIXME contrast wrapping, make a list
    • Odd behavior
      • Why can't I cut/paste in xterm?
      • Why can't I select tabs in xterm?
      • FVWM does weird things when I try to resize xterm
      • Why doesn't the screen clear when running vi?
      • Why is the cursor misplaced after running vi?
      • Why doesn't the scrollbar work?
      • Why can't my program read the window title?
      • Why can't my program set the window size?
    • Sample .Xdefaults Color-Settings for XTerm
    • What is this warning message?
  • Known Bugs in XTerm and Look–alikes
    • X11R6.3 XTerm
    • COLOR_XTERM download
    • ANSI_XTERM download
    • CXTERM download
    • DTTERM
    • EMU 1.3 download
    • ETERM link
    • GNOME TERMINAL link
    • Notes on VTE
      • osso-xterm link
      • roxterm link
      • XFCE Terminal link
    • MULTI GNOME TERMINAL (MGT) link
    • HANTERM download
    • KONSOLE link
    • KTERM download
    • MLTERM
    • MTERM
    • MXTERM
    • NXTERM
    • RXVT link
    • XGTERM link
    • XITERM link
  • How do I build XTerm?
  • How do I report bugs?
  • Additional Information
    • Other Sites
    • The XTerm Manual
    • Xterm Control Sequences
    • resize – set TERMCAP and terminal settings to current xterm window size
    • luit – Locale and ISO 2022 support for Unicode terminals
  • Ongoing/future work