Minicom is very easy to use, but sometimes not intuitive, recommend new people especially accustomed to Windows HyperTerminal users using xgcom.
The installation method is as follows:
My system is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
1. Download xgcom source code from http://code.google.com/p/xgcom/. The latest version is xgcom-0.04.2.tgz.
Extract to/usr/local/src under tar xvzf xgcom-0.04.2.tgz/usr/local/src
2. Before compiling the xgcom, you need to install several required library make, Automake,libglib2.0-dev,libvte-dev,libgtk2.0-dev. Some systems may have taken some of their own.
sudo apt-get install Automake
sudo apt-get install Libglib2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install Libvte-dev
sudo apt-get install Libgtk2.0-dev
3. Be ready to start compiling xgcom
Go into the unpacked source code directory, CD/USR/LOCAL/SRC/XGCOM-0.04.2-SRC
Configure and compile with reference to the Readme
./autogen.sh
Make
sudo make install
Then xgcom run
Can which xgcom look down, install to the/usr/local/bin under