On 21 Jan 2013, at 15:49, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 01/21/2013 03:09 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: PuTTY has been ported to Linux too? WTF? WHY?! For one, VTxxx compatibility. Unless one really understands the Xresources and how to move the appropriate fonts from VMS to Linux, build the fontdir, reset the font cache and update the font path, PuTTY is a right-out-of-the- box VTxxx emulation. Ok, I'll buy that. I use plain old xterm for talking to my DEC machines. I use gnome-terminal for everything else. Out-of-the-box xterm works reasonably well, and all in all I'm pretty happy, but I have loved EDT since I was a kid, and not having a full keypad sucks. gnome-terminal from GNOME2 or GNOME3? Do you have any specific advice for xterm resource settings etc for better compatibility? I'm less worried about fonts...I'm comfortable wrangling them, been using X since the X10R4 (no typo there) days, but I'm not too concerned with maintaining font appearance compatibility. It's more keypad stuff, and functionality needed to drive EDT in a high-efficiency way. That's going back quite a ways. ;) In this regard, the Mac OS X Terminal.app works surprisingly well right-out- of-the-box. Xterm on Linux will require extensive changes to get it to pass that VTTEST suite. I used Terminal.app when I was still using OS X and it worked ok. iTerm worked even better. Try your xterm and see how well it does with that test suite. Terminal.app can be used to used to see what should be there if you don't have a real VT terminal. Dave, I know you do. ;) I do indeed. :) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA