21 Jun
2021
21 Jun
'21
8:33 p.m.
I have to admit, I?m watching this with interest. Hopefully I can see about getting this
up and running one of these days.
I find myself wondering what it would take to build this on a Mac, the current Mac xterm
*SUCKS*!!! On the Mac, I can?t seem to use the custom DEC keybindings.
Actually does DECterm support either Sixel and ReGIS? I?m dead on my feet, so won?t power
up my VAXstation 4000/90 and look.
Zane
On Jun 21, 2021, at 8:13 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Grant;
Wow, that is very helpful. I had downloaded xterm from invisible-island.net and executed
a ./configure. I complained that I lacked the Athena X widgets, so I paused on it.
I'm going to give this another try.
I'd like to thank all the kind folks who posted a response to my initial question.
Doug
On 6/20/2021 6:06 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 6/19/21 11:47 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
Really? I'm interested. How do you build
your own xterm?
Download and extract the source code.
Here's the configure command that I most recently used before teaching Gentoo's
ebuild about Sixel and ReGIS. (The command is derived from the ebuild I was patterning
off of.)
./configure --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --datadir=/usr/share --disable-full-tgetent
--disable-imake --disable-setgid --disable-setuid --disable-toolbar --enable-256-color
--enable-broken-osc --enable-broken-st --enable-dabbrev --enable-exec-xterm --enable-i18n
--enable-load-vt-fonts --enable-logging --enable-luit --enable-mini-luit --enable-openpty
--enable-regis-graphics --enable-screen-dumps --enable-sixel-graphics --enable-warnings
--enable-wide-chars --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --infodir=/usr/share/info --libdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
--with-app-defaults=/usr/share/X11/app-defaults --without-Xaw3d --without-xinerama
--with-utempter --with-x
The key part is "--enable-sixel-graphics" and / or
"--enable-regis-graphics". I'm also partial to the
"--enable-256-color" and "--enable-screen-dumps".
The screen dumps mean that XTerm will save XHTML and / or XML dumps. Meaning they are
text that you can search / copy paste. }:-)
P.S. My messages to cctech don't seem to be going through. So I'm re-replying
to the message to cctalk.