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Karrot_Kream on Feb 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: St – A simple terminal implementation for X

Not everyone has the latest and greatest machine.

smlacy on Feb 2, 2017 [–]

Are you saying that xterm has poor performance?

This appears to be true (from other comments on terminal performance in this thread) but other VTE-based terminals (gnome-terminal) have high performance and work great on sub-1GHz class machines.

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