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Also, xterm can use true type fonts not only X fonts (rxvt can only use X fonts) and these are much slower than X fonts.

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Re^3: (OT) X terminal output speed on linux
by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 17, 2006 at 13:05 UTC
    Both my xterm and urxvt used the default system font(i.e no -fn option specified), although I can't say for sure that they don't select different fonts, but they look the same.

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