xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System.
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GNU Screen weird characters on click
I have a small problem in GNU screen. A GNU screen session runs on my raspberry pi. Now sometimes, when I join it, if I click in the terminal (I'm using terminator on fedora) I see weird characters ...
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How iconify xterm when it loses focus?
I am attempting iconify a xterm terminal when it loses focus in fluxbox.
I am following this wiki:
http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Make_xterm_act_like_a_PC_game_console
And so far, I've got ...
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1answer
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Opening a usable xterm window through bash script
I often have projects for which I need multiple terminal windows open at different locations, and setting up my workspace each time I want to work on this project takes a long time, so I'd like to be ...
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1answer
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RHEL6: system default font
When I fire up urxvt or xterm, by default the font is a sans-serif monospace unaliased font. I would like to make this my font in other applications, but I can't find it in my system font list (i.e. I ...
0
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1answer
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How to change keyboard speed in the Linux console? [duplicate]
When I press Ctrl + Alt + F1 the desktop environment disappears and a terminal window appears. Pressing Ctrl + Alt + F7 brings me back to DE.
This terminal is useful when the DE hangs for some reason ...
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Desktop Manager doesn't start with xorg
I've just installed Arch and I have installed gnome, but when I type startx I have the following problem
waiting for X server to shut down Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.c: ...
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2answers
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xterm warning: Tried to connect to session manager
I am writing a quick script to read user input and put into commands of a couple different programs. I'm using xterm -e to open a terminal for each separate program.
The script is working fine, but ...
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How to print xterm output in the current terminal window? [closed]
I am a beginner in Linux, so excuse me if the question is simple.
I use xterm in wine as follows:
wine cmd
z:\usr\bin\xterm -e application
xterm will open a new window, runs the application and ...
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1answer
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How can a bash script detect support for window titling escape characters?
I have a debug trap that runs every time I enter a command in bash that sets the window title to indicate what command is running. I'm leaving out all the configuration details and boil it down to:
...
2
votes
1answer
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Why does insert-mode map “<F4>” unpredictably inserts itself or executes intended key strokes?
In Vim 7.3.1-762, mintty 1.1.2 (xterm), cygwin, Windows XP, the insert-mode map <F4> executes the intended key strokes at one time but inserts itself at another time. This undeterministic ...
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1answer
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Why do I get this 'Erase is backspace' message after I do a reset in xterm?
So when I do a reset in xterm I get something like this:
Erase is backspace.
[omarg@computer]:
I've already checked my .bashrc and .Xdefaults files but it doesn't seem like that message is being ...
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1answer
327 views
Running an xterm remotely with ssh -Y, defies the coloring I setup in .Xresources
The xterm seems to not read the colors I set in my ~/.Xresources file when I connect to a Linux PC remotely.
Basically, if I'm sitting in front of my PC and I run an xterm from Xsession, the colors ...
3
votes
1answer
149 views
How to tell xfce (or an application) where to put the window when starting?
I have a number of different boxes, all running debian and xfce. When I launch multiple applications (specifically xterm windows) on one machine, they end up all in the center of the desktop, and they ...
2
votes
1answer
245 views
How to fix the shifted function keys in vim in xterm in gnome-terminal?
When I hit the <s-f2> key to execute my nnoremap <s-f2> :set number! mapping Vim opens its "Insert" mode above (O) and types the 1;2Q string. In order to see the entire terminal key code – ...
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1answer
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What kind of notification is Firefox sending when a download has finished?
I'm using the dynamic window manager of suckless (dwm). I noticed that firefox is able to send nice notifications when a download has finished. See the two figures
When I'm on a different tag, I ...
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1answer
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C-u leaves ghost characters at command prompt in xterm
I am using bash (v3.2.25) on linux, through xterm, through exceed. When using Ctrlu the cursor is moved next to the bash character prompt ($) but the rest of the line remains and is not erased as ...
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Tmux eclipsed colorized output of ls
I'm running Xubuntu 12.04, and when I use the Terminal I get colored filenames from ls. But inside tmux, everything ls prints is white. I know my tmux supports color, though, because I get color ...
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3answers
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Sed processed file displays differently in vi vs cat
I can't tell if sed is mucking my file up. In vi or less it displays properly, but cat and more insert other characters. why are they showing up differently
I am on a redhat linux system with a ...
3
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1answer
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How to set up `screen` to modify the window title and xterm-window title?
I'd like to have my current $PS1 prompt (\u@\h:\w$(__git_ps1 "(%s)")\$ plus some coloring) to be also used as screen's window title (in the hardline) and as the xterm window title. How can this be ...
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How to efficiently use Console2 with screen/tmux/byobu?
I'm using Console 2 and msysgit's bash to SSH into my Linux machines. There, I'm using screen (but considering tmux and/or byobu), but currently simply with one single-terminal session per ...
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1answer
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VNUML - 'brctl' command doesn't work in xterms
I have installed vnuml and bridge-utils on my machine, but am unable to run the brctl command on the xterm terminals that popup after building the simulation. I get a 'command not found' error. I am, ...
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Change title on xterm [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Display command in xterm titlebar
Like konsole's tabs on KDE I want the title on xterm do the same thing (automatically changes).
¿Can anyone teach me?
Thanks!
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1answer
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SSH within SSH displays the wrong machine name in the xterm title bar
I am working on a distributed system connecting to several servers at once. Nothing is started manually in the program I am working on, but this is how to recreate the error manually.
I start a xterm ...
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How can my script know when I'm in a virtual console vs. an xterm?
A few of my scripts (keymap changing, public key adding) need to act differently when in a virtual console vs. in an xterm. What's the real code for
#!/bin/ksh
if [[ in_a_virtual_console ]]; then
...
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4answers
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Set tab width in GUI terminal
I found that
setterm -regtabs 4
doesn't work in xterm or urxvt.
But, this
xterm_set_tabs () {
TERM=linux;
export $TERM;
setterm -regtabs 4
}
will circumvent the problem.
But, I suspect ...
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1answer
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Extra characters in XTerm printerCommand output
I've set up .Xresources to be able to print the terminal contents to a file when pressing Alt-P:
XTerm*printAttributes: 2
XTerm*printerCommand: cat - > "`mktemp --tmpdir ...
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votes
1answer
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How to configure the double click behavior in an X terminal?
Under different Unix/Linux systems I've observed different double click behavior in X terminal applications (e.g. xterm).
Sometimes a double click selects everything left and right until the next ...
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How to get VIM to display 256 colors properly
I'm trying to get 256 color theme files to work with VIM under xterm.
This is peaksea how it looks for me:
How it should look:
I've tried following the tips on the wiki page to no avail.
set ...
3
votes
0answers
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8-bit input in gnome-terminal
I'm trying to switch from xterm to gnome-terminal but having trouble with alt keys. I have already disabled menu access keys, but I still need 8-bit inputs. In xterm I can set 8-bit inputs in ...
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votes
1answer
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Make 'CTRL-/' behave the same in vtty and xterm
When I press Ctrl+/ in a graphical terminal (e.g. xterm) I get "undo". However, in a virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1) I get "backspace".
In practice I run into this when I'm using emacs in a ...
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1answer
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Control Initial size of xfce4-terminal?
As I didn't see the option to configure start window size of xfce4's terminal program , is it configurable ?
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1answer
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Emacs commands in xterm
I found that the commands I used to use in gnome-terminal/bash, those I learned in emacs, are only partially working in xterm/bash. In some cases, I get strange chars like ÿ, æ, and â instead. Do you ...
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Color terminal under USS
I've been using a remote terminal connected to USS under a mainframe for some time. Is there a way to configure this terminal to be colored?
I'm using PuTTY and xterm.
Added: USS stands for UNIX ...
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votes
2answers
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XTerm not closing using -e option
I have an tcl script running in MWM and it starts xterm terminals with:
.menu.utils.m add command -label {Xterm} -command {
exec xterm -sb -T "Xterm" -sl 10000 -e su - int &
}
Doing ...
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1answer
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How can I save the Xterm configuration I set at runtime?
I configured my xterm using the CTRL-MiddleClick and CTRL-RightClick. Is there a way to export save these settings?
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1answer
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Run xterm with login shell or not?
Per default xterm starts an interactive shell. But you can also configure it to start an interactive login-shell.
That means that with starting an xterm you get the same kind of shell like logging in ...
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Is there a clipboard on non-GUI Ubuntu / Linux systems? Can I synchronize it with my local (OS X) clipboard?
I spend a lot of time on Mac OS X as a desktop system, and on the Mac there are two nice little utilities for the command line, pbcopy and pbpaste which can accept stdin and write to stdout. Is there ...
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2answers
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using watch with ssh
I have a script:
export TERM=xterm
watch -t -d -n 1 'netstat -veeantpo | grep 43597
when we run this script though ssh, it does not determine the monitor resolution. so lines are wrapped although ...
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vote
1answer
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How to configure the terminal so that a mouse click will move the cursor to the current mouse position
What I'm looking for is how to configure the terminal so that it behaves like nano -m.
I know that xterm inside fvwm2 running on slackware does this but neither gnome or kde does it. I have tested ...
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2answers
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Resuming screen with UTF8 enabled breaks character input
Overview of UTF8 screen re-attachment issues.
Problem:
Creating a screen that uses UTF8 works perfectly until re-attaching said screen session.
Steps:
ssh remothost
screen -U -S ttytter
[detach ...
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4answers
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Xterm with Solarized only showing dark background without font colors
I am trying to get the Solarized color scheme for xterm, but have not had much success with it. I am running Debian 6 and downloaded the Xresources to ~/.Xresources.
After loading the new settings ...
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votes
2answers
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how to make XTerm never use bold characters?
I am trying to make XTerm to never use a bold font, and nothing seems to work. I put settings in ~/.Xresources and then run xrdb ~/.Xresources and then start a new XTerm. This is what I try:
...
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2answers
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is it possible to send a control sequence to a terminal emulator using the keyboard
If you type echo -e '\eZ' and hit return in a shell running in an xterm, you'll see that the terminal emulator prints an obscure code 1;2c. This seems to indicate that xterm interprets the VT100 ...
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How can I run byobu from xterm at starting?
I set up byobu auto run with the command byobu-enable. It's great when I log in from terminal or ssh, but how can I make xterm attach to it automatically ?
(mate-terminal from Linux mint especially)
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What is bash's meta key?
I tried to use xmodmap to map META_L to the MENU key but it doesn't seem to be accepted by bash as the meta key. So, I am wondering how these components (keyboard, X, xterm, bash) relate to each in ...
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Is it possible to obtain the current name of the xterm window?
This LDP Howto demonstrates how to change the title of an xterm.
I know that this is also possible using the xtitle command.
Before invoking a long-running action, my script uses such techniques to ...
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2answers
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Why use a pts for xterm or anything
I keep reading on multiple sites that pts device files are used for pseudo-terminals which are "not directly connected to the hardware" (ssh, telnet).
Since xterm running on you machine is directly ...
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2answers
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Why do different terminals have different values for keys in the .inputrc file?
This question really started from here. I would like to know why different terminals like rxvt and xterm use different values when mapping key combinations? Whilst I am in rxvt or xterm how can I find ...
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Changing terminal emulators
I have ssh access to a remote machine. In this machine if I run echo $TERM I get xterm.
If I want to change my terminal emulator to some other emulator (assuming that it's installed on the remote ...
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xterm repaint problem [closed]
I'm using xterm on Gentoo Linux. After working with xterm for a while (typing many characters/commands), suddenly, xterm stops painting (rendering text). The caret seems to be frozen. The text is ...
