From: Marc Espie Subject: Re: urvt vs xterm To: ports@openbsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:41:46 +0200 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 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. > 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.