The xterm program is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102/VT220 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. If the underlying operating system supports terminal resizing capabilities (for example, the SIGWINCH signal in systems derived from 4.3bsd), xterm will use the facilities to notify programs running in the window whenever it is resized.
| Tags | Desktop Environment Terminals Terminal Emulators/X Terminals |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT/X |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Improves configurability of openpty versus posix_openpt functions. Adds a new feature PasteControls to enable control characters (other than formatting) to be pasted. Several minor bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release fixes the special case of the #282 change for "alternateScroll" to allow the wheel-mouse to work properly in the scrollbar area.


Release Notes: Fixes an incomplete revert of a change in the previous patch, which caused incorrect display in the scrollback area.


Release Notes: This fixes several minor bugs, and also updates the wide-character width tables for Unicode 6.2.


Release Notes: This release fixes issues found by Coverity and adds other small bugfixes and code cleanup.
A library that efficiently calculates various mathematical functions using SSE2 SIMD instructions in double precision.