magnetarrocket / mxterm

Archive of the hard to find Xterm variant modified to use the motif toolkit.

Mxterm

This is a another archive of the now hard to find mxterm, my intrest in it is because it's a motif terminal emulator, and about the only stand-alone one left.

Currently it comes up with the error of "xterm: no available ptys: No such file or directory" on MacOSX big sur from the pkgsrc package manager, if anybody has an idea to fix it; please do ask me, it seems to be a repeated cryptic error i've seen before. And If there was a anwser, it's lost or gone now.

Notes:

Main is main, any pushes to classic will be ignored.

Fair warning: xTerm is a very eldritch terminal emulator already by itself, any simplfications to mXterm will be wellcome here. Also mind the motif toolkit used here, due to a compromise made in the conceiving of motif itself, the motif parts may also be hard to read. to see more about this state of affairs, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xterm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)

mxterm's Issues

Inabilty to run on Big Sur

Installed by pkgsrc, error log:

Warning: Cannot convert string "opt/x11/include/x11/bitmaps/grid4" to type Pixmap
xterm: no available ptys: No such file or directory

Remove vttests?

The current versions of vttest are distributed as a standalone, remove?

Remove tektests?

Expect for compatiblty with tektronix vector-tube storage terminals, i don't think these should be here, remove?