Let's take a step back and talk about why you are using an xterm this way. What does the xterm process give you that a basic Tk::Text window does not? If you are simply trying to display the output of a unix shell command inside a Perl/Tk app, the usual way to do that is: 
use strict;
use Tk;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;
my $tx = $mw->Scrolled('Text', -height => 24, -width => 90)->pack();

my $data = `programname`;
$tx->insert( '0.0', $data );

MainLoop;

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(That worked pretty well for me when I put "ls" in place of "programname".)

Presumably there's more to your app than that, but you get the idea. If that's the sort of thing you're after, using an embedded xterm, while really cool, is more complicated than it needs to be. If you need something more, what would that be, exactly?

In reply to Re^3: embedding xterm in perl/tk window by graff
in thread embedding xterm in perl/tk window by diamantis

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