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.




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