Talk:Comparison of terminal emulators

Creation

I created this page because the List of terminal emulators article was kind of lacking, hoping people with more time will fill in the blanks and add to it.

Mouse Tracking is the xterm extension that quite a few terminals and applications support, same for 256 color.

The OSC palette is an xterm extension (I think) that allows customizing the default 16 colors using ESC ] P nrrggbb: with parameter given in 7 hexadecimal digits after the final P with n being the color (0-15), and rrggbb indicates the red/green/blue values (0-255), with ESC ] R for resetting the palette. OSC stands for Operating System Command and is documented in the console_codes manual shipped with Linux. --Scandum (talk) 18:37, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

No - the "OSC palette" is a Linux console feature. It's misformed, since it lacks a final character. xterm has a feature, named brokenLinuxOSC to work around applications which assume that every terminal is Linux console (and don't bother to send a suitable final character). Since it doesn't have a final character, it's not really an OSC command, but rather a Linux-specific control string. TEDickey (talk) 00:23, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

"TERM" column

What is that column supposed to represent? (PuTTY's capabilities differ from xterm - and the $TERM which it sets is configurable, as is xterm's) TEDickey (talk) 00:32, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

It shows that PuTTY aims to behave like xterm, and it's useful for server developers to know how terminals identify themselves. --Scandum (talk) 03:20, 16 May 2011 (UTC)