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The xterm Terminal Emulator
This chapter describes how to use xterm, the terminal emulator. You use this client to create multiple terminal windows, each of which can run any programs available on the underlying operating system.
In This Chapter:
Terminal Emulation and the xterm Terminal Type
Copying and Pasting Text Selections
Copying and Pasting between Release 2 and 3 Clients: xcutsel
Saving Multiple Selections: xclipboard
Problems with Large Selections
Editing Text Saved in the xclipboard
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The xterm Terminal Emulator
xterm provides you with a terminal within a window. Anything you can do using a standard terminal, you can do in an xterm window. Once you have an xterm window on your screen, you can use it to run other clients.
You can bring up more than one xterm window at a time. For example, you might want to list the contents of a directory in one window while you edit a file in another window. Although you can display output simultaneously in several windows, you can type in only one window at a time.
When you start an xterm process on the command line in one xterm window, the second xterm inherits the environment variables of the first (including the DISPLAY setting); the second shell also starts in the working directory ...
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