Updating XTerm and TWM?

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu Sep 29 15:11:55 PDT 2005


On Thursday 29 September 2005 15:22, Joe Krahn wrote:
> I much prefer XTerm over the 'advanced' terminals provided by Gnome and
> KDE, etc. However, XTerm needs a few updates to improve compatibility.
> For example: http://www.davidsimmons.com/soft/xtermhacks/

xterm is maintained, and not by Xorg.  Thomas Dickey has been the maintainer 
for many years now.

> I also often use TWM when I need graphics but don't want the bloated
> overhead of KDE/Gnome. But TWM could also use a few updates. Are other
> peopl for/against updating Xorg's twm to add compatibility for things
> like color icon pixmaps and some NET_WM support?

In general people don't use twm, and we have no maintainer for it atm.  Feel 
free to take ownership of it.

- ajax
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