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urvt vs xterm
On Jun 10 08:41:46, marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 12:39:50AM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:09:00 +0200, > > Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I've recently started using urxvt instead of xterm everywhere, > > > in major part because xterm was losing glyphs, and after a few months > > > of not figuring out why (and asking the guys in charge of X11 and drm > > > I didn't get any useful answer for my setup) I decided to switch. > > > > > > > I not completley understand what do you mean as "losing glyphs" but if you > > mean text on resize of screen... > > No, it's just some glyphs on my xterm that would randomly not show. With > absolutely zero error messages and randomness. And it would happen after > a while, that could be some random e that would not show. Quite infuriating. Sorry, I don't get it: do you mean an everyday ascii 'e' in a textual output would not show in an xterm? I have never seen that. The font xterm is using (as in xterm -fn) doesn't necessarily have a glyph for each and every unicode character, but they all cover ascii, right? Jan > > > When, it actually was fixed by me and patches was included into 406 and 407 > > release. > > Maybe it's that, I'll try an xterm or two, though I've gotten used to > urxvt by now. > > > So, if it is your case, I think xterm from -current should make your happy. > >
urvt vs xterm