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http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php

A light xterm. And it's actually lighter! Not tabbed.

I got this working with a nice vga font from DOSEmu. See 9x15 versus DOSEMU's vga font. However, I learned that aterm does not support unicode. It suggested rxvt-unicode, and I got it working with a nice unicode vga font. See Unicode VGA font for that info.

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(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/materm/
was https://code.google.com/archive/p/mrxvt

A terminal emulator which allows tabs.

I could just use Screen, but mrxvt is so much easier to use. =)

  • aka materm
  • See also: rxvt-unicode (rxvt), which is also definitely light.

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Software > Terminals >

(on Wikipedia)
http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ [ 1 ] redirects to http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ [ 2 ] was rxvt.org

A nice light terminal emulator.

rxvt is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result, rxvt uses much less swap space.

  • our extended virtual terminal

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^ 1 redirects to http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/
^ 2 was rxvt.org

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Software > Terminals >

(on Wikipedia)
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ [ 1 ] was https://web.archive.org/*/http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html

A terminal emulator.

Essential for its compatibility. It also comes with every Linux distribution I've used.



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