Howto replace aterm with urxvt

[tomeara]

Create a symlink for urxvt called aterm in your .local/bin

Code: (bash) [Select]

cp -s /usr/local/bin/urxvt ~/.local/bin/aterm

[netnomad]

i guess you mean:

ln -s /usr/local/bin/urxvt ~/.local/bin/aterm

[tomeara]

You may also need to change urxvt's term name from rxvt-unicode to rxvt to avoid problems with some programs. One way is to add the following line to your .Xdefaults

URxvt.termName: rxvt

[Rich]

Hi netnomad

i guess you mean:

ln -s /usr/local/bin/urxvt ~/.local/bin/aterm

Type  cp --help  and check out the  -s  option

[netnomad]

hi rich,

i never heard of that variation to link a file...
or is there a technical difference i should consider or obey?

thank you for your reply or explanation.

[Rich]

Hi netnomad
I didn't notice it myself until I checked. I don't know if there is a difference, probably not.

[DG12]

I am surprised aterm is default since afterstep.org/aterm.php
states:
aterm is deprecated and in a maintenance mode only; there will be no further updates. Use rxvt-unicode instead.

Perhaps next release of TinyCore could default to urxvt?

[curaga]

urxvt is bigger, aterm has no appreciable bugs or lack some must-have feature. Software does not come with an expiry date

[DG12]

OK then.  Thanks for really quick reply.
Can you elaborate on features? expiry?

[Rich]

Hi DG12

aterm is deprecated and in a maintenance mode only; there will be no further updates.

That sounds like it is mature and stable. There are no real improvements to be made. That is not
a reason to stop using it however.
expiry: Software does not expire and go bad like food does.

[bmarkus]

If you need urxvt just install and use. I'm using it in LXDE as a default terminal to have national character set supported but most users are running TC with default C chars, so urxvt doesn't give any benefit.

[curaga]

@Dg12, please don't PM me about basic questions answered in the FAQ, intro, or Core Concepts.

@bmarkus: I've used aterm fine with iso-8859-15?

[bmarkus]

@bmarkus: I've used aterm fine with iso-8859-15?

I used UTF-8. Anyhow, I'm fine with aterm as I'm not using any localization with TC, just pure English.

[coreplayer2]

If it's not broke, please don't fix it :p  I think Aterm serves it purpose more than adequately thanks

[solorin]

I agree it's not broke.
I <3 me some aterm as much as the next guy.

But why not separate it from Xlibs as fltk was separated?
That way users have a choice as to what terminal emulator they want to run, without having to keep the other one around.

In fact, now that we are Core instead of Tinycore/Microcore. I don't see why all of Xlibs.tcz couldn't be dismantled into it's various parts and made into a meta-extension.

cheerio,
solorin