xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System.
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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 ...
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How do you display xterm colors with putty/bash?
Putty has this "allow terminal use xterm 256 colour mode" that I'd like to use, but I don't know how. I've been using a color.sh script to output echo statements and commands with colors, and I want ...
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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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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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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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How to set keycodes manually in vim?
Sometimes when I fire up vim, my Insert key doesn't work (need to use i) and my arrows don't work (they give me letters instead).
I'm guessing this has to do with my keys not being mapped correctly. ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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It's possible to make XTERM and Gnome-keyring work together?
When I'am connecting to ssh with gnome-terminal application opens gnome-keyring dialog, so I am entering password only once per session and I can reconnect to same ssh more than once without asking ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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: ...
