Questions tagged [xterm]
xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System.
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Font size issue with xterms started through icewm's hotkeys
Recently got a new laptop with 1920x1080 monitor instead of 1366x768 on old laptop. All my many xterms suddenly smaller and text illegible. After investigation, decided easiest solution was an alias ...
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Keyboard sending wrong codes for certain key combinations only to linux terminals, tried everything. So confused
I had been trying out a few different linux distros over the past few days and ended up back in Windows. I noticed that in WSL ubuntu shift-home wasn’t working properly—it would print out the letter H....
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sticky/persistent xterm menus
Is there a way to keep xterm menus in a way that is minimally accessible for users with disabilities? I know I could override every single action accessed via the menus to brand new keyboard shortcuts,...
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TERM environment variable not set when running shell script using automator (MAC)
In using mac sonoma. I tried to run my shell script via Automator app. There's a 'diskutil umount' command in the script that will give me this error :
TERM environment variable not set.
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I am running an app in 'xterm' under MacOS or Linux. Can I disable the middle mouse button paste? [duplicate]
Do you know of an application that runs on xterm, and uses all the mouse buttons with all the modifiers? Or an argument to show this is not possible?
I have an application that uses the mouse. I ...
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Is it possible to halt xterm scrolling while the program is running
I am trying to make xterm to meet my criteria for a terminal emulator. Most of the features I want are built into xterm but there is one that I can not get working. I'd like to ask if someone knows if ...
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How to avoid leaving a cmd terminal when starting an xterm by ssh
On Windows 10, I want to show an xterm window on my PC that runs on my server using ssh into the server.
For this I have created a Windows command script, as a file with .cmd extension, with the ...
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GNU Screen in XTerm resets cursor shape
In my .bashrc I use printf -- '\x1b[6 q' to get blinking bar cursor in my xterm(1)s. When I run screen(1) then it resets the cursor to non-blinking block and also seems to be ignoring all variants of ...
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Why does FAQ of tmux say that "Inside tmux TERM must be screen, tmux or similar"?
FAQ of tmux says that "Inside tmux TERM must be screen, tmux or similar". Why is that? How about xterm type terminal description, like xterm-256color? Is there any potential compatibility ...
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Enabling seamless mouse scrolling with tmux
Edit: this answer is written with respect to Windows Terminal, but I expect it's an issue for xterm more generally.
By default, running tmux in Windows Terminal doesn't show the scroll bar, and doesn'...
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In xterm, how do I bind Ctrl-minus but not Ctrl-Shift-minus?
My .Xresources looks like this:
! Change size with ctrl +-
XTerm.VT100.translations: #override \n\
Ctrl &...
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How can I get my Lubuntu system to "beep" via bash script?
Running Lubuntu 20.04LTS, and trying to get a nice beep when a bash script finishes.
Before anyone votes this down, I have tried:
beep
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sudo modprobe snd-pcsp
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say
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Could not start Telnet console with command 'xterm -T "R1" -e "telnet localhost 5001"': [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: 'xterm'
This error was produced when trying to telnet on GNS3 on Linux Ubuntu Mint 20.04
Usually, the localhost assume machine IP with the port number link this: R1 telnet 192.168.1.10:5001
Currently, it is ...
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xterm is displaying raw escape sequences
I currently have an old Red Hat Enterprise Linux server (release 6.7). From this server I’m able to open an xterm and telnet to an OpenVMS machine. Once connected to OpenVMS I can run LSE (the ...
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xterm: circled numbers (U+2460-U+2470) only the left half of the glyph is displayed
I am using the version of xterm that ships with ubuntu 21.04 (package xterm361-1ubuntu3) and some characters such as circled numbers are not displayed correctly: the right half of the character is ...
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How to fix this screen tearing in Vim
I've been seeing this kind of screen tearing with Vim and some other programs. It's intermittent and I'm pretty sure it only happens when a program puts \r on it's stdout, I'm not sure if there's a ...
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Terminal editors (nano, vim, etc) wipe terminal history on exit
I have recently upgraded from WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) version 1 to version 2. I am having a problem with using editors; some times, when I exit Nano or Vim, it wipes my history. I still ...
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xterm text wrapping and reverse command search not working properly
My set up is: Arch Linux, i3, xterm. I would be happy to provide other details as well.
I have been facing this problem for quite sometime now. Here it is.
When there is certain text on the window and ...
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How to use xterm on Mac OS
How to use xterm on Mac OS?
I'm quite new to Mac OS and I want to use xterm on it.
I found from
Why can't I paste into xterm (XQuartz)?
and here and here
that starting xterm is not much an issue ...
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vi command line editing insert mode overwrite
I'm using Windows Terminal (TERM=xterm-256color) in a bash shell under Ubuntu:
uname -a
Linux xxxxxxx 4.19.128-microsoft-standard #1 SMP Tue Jun 23 12:58:10 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I'...
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on the password prompt, the shell automatically adds a return after entering a character and displays authentication failed
logging in to an ubuntu 16.04 server via ssh. This has never happened before. The other user I asked seems unaffected by this. What could have happened? Also, when I try to enter my git credentials ...
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.Xresources file ignored on OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 with GNOME
I have written an .Xresources file with xterm settings, and it is not loaded when user logs in: the xterm has the ugly default settings when launched. This happens on a VirtualBox VM running OpenSUSE ...
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mintty support for sixel graphics?
I have mintty 3.06 installed, running Ubuntu 18.04 with WSL1.
This should support sixel graphics as far as I know, but no graphics have worked.
I try:
img2sixel png|jpeg
w3m -o ext_image_viewer=0 ...
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How to open a program in different Xephyr Displays?
I have two Xephyr displays created through PyVirtualDisplay, when I try to open xterm in both of them it works just fine, but many other programs will open twice on the same display.
So if I do this:
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Remote xterm terminating with an error event BadAccess
I'm logging into a remote server using ssh -x and then running xterm. Whenever the keyboard bell is trying to be run, I get the following messages and xterm exits:
xterm: warning, error event ...
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Why don't mouse events work in Windows terminals using ConHost?
I was wondering why mouse events don't seem to work on Windows for most terminals while using OpenSSH. Let me explain.
Let's say you're using tmux in WSL, via cmd.exe. Mouse events, last time I ...
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Vim arrow keys are working as Ctrl+arrows in xterm
I'm stuggling with vim arrow keys.
My arrow keys are working as Ctrl+arrows in Vim.
But, this is happening only when using xterm + vim. I mean, arrow keys are working exactly as normal arrows when ...
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Xterm escape code to remap Page Up (Shift+PageUp) Command in urxvt
I'd like to bind Ctrl-u to send the Page Up command, but don't know how.
URxvt.keysym.Ctrl-u: command:<Shift+PageUp>
I have bound Ctrl-j to scroll up line by line in urxvt like this:
URxvt....
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Setting the xterm window title on Ubuntu sets the wrong title
I'm trying to set the window and icon title for xterm on Ubuntu 17.
odin:~% grep PRET /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 17.04"
odin:~% printf "\e]0;%s\a" X00X
odin:~% xterm -help
XTerm(324) usage:
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SSH to Linux host with an incompatible Terminal Size
I use SSH from MacOS within its built-in Terminal program to login to a CentOS server. For some reasons, after login, this server has some setting that makes it 80 column only. If my Terminal is wider ...
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No file sourced in non-login shells
In login shells, no problem : /etc/profile and ~/.profile are sourced. But in non-login shells (xterm in XOrg), they aren't. The $HOME variable isn't even set.
I'm using Fluxbox and the Bourne shell (...
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Why doesn't xterm support double-sized characters when using Xft fonts?
Whenever I configure xterm to use core X11 fonts:
*.vt100.renderFont: False
*.vt100.locale: False
*.vt100.font: -monotype-courier new-medium-r-normal--*-...
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What is the difference between `xterm -e $COMMAND` and `$COMMAND` within `xterm`?
I'm surprised that there are differences between running a $COMMAND in xterm and running xterm -e $COMMAND.
As an example: if I run tmux as a program within xterm, I get different behavior than when ...
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How to set scrolling speed of vim like set mouse=a when mouse=v?
I wonder how it's possible to set scrolling speed.
As is, when I scroll with my mouse in command or edit mode, it moves only one line at a time.
I prefer to move by example 3 line at a time. (speed ...
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How to switch between terminal, nerdtree and text editor?
I normally switch screen in vim using ctrl+h or ctrl+l to switch between NerdTree and vim main window.
Vim8 got :term command to bring up terminal which is great!
But I cannot figure out how to switch ...
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Linux Mint: GNOME Terminal does not show 'message from' in write program
Usually a write command (reference: write) will cause the receiver to see
Message from yourname@yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ...
I don't see that... Any idea?
In my Windows 10, I have a virtual ...
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preprocessor directive #define doesn't work in .Xresources
I'm trying to use a solarized color theme for my .Xresources file. I'm using Arch Linux with i3 window manager.
However, it seems that #define preprocessor directives do nothing, and the .Xresources ...
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Execute Command with xterm and close
Im trying to execute a program with xterm and then close xterm with program running but it seems this doesn't work like I would expect it.
In bash there is the option bash -c [command] is there ...
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How to detach instead of terminate a GNU Screen session inside xterm when pressing C-c?
On X startup the following is ran automatically:
xterm -e screen -rS app1
This opens up an xterm session and attaches the screen of app1, which was already running in a detached state.
What I'd ...
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How can the character set for popup menus be controlled in xterm
Somewhere along the way I've changed a setting that has caused the popup windows in xterm to be displayed in Greek characters. The text in the main window is fine, its just the popup windows that are ...
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xterm copy to PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD independently
I want to be able to use both selections in xterm.
I would like selecting text and using middle click to copy and paste to and from PRIMARY.
I would like Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V to copy and ...
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Can't start remote GUI programs using terminal on Rhel.7
Can't start remote GUI programs like gedit, Firefox, and more GUI on RHEL.7 using terminal directly.
how to open that direct,
not as ssh.
XTerm required for that?
or what application is required for ...
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Key mapping on Putty or Xterm
We have a lot of old PC's running Windows XP for the sole purpose of running a terminal emulator. Desperately want to get away from Windows XP, so have tried Ubuntu with Xterm and linux Mint with ...
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Run a command in a terminal, then when complete leave the command in the terminal
I have a problem where I need to launch a command from a terminal, and leave the terminal open with the command I used once it is complete. The reason is that depending on certain circumstances I may ...
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How to get rid of error message on ssh login --> "setterm: terminal xterm does not support --blength"
Whenever I ssh into my arch linux box I get this error message:
setterm: terminal xterm does not support --blength
Also when executing:
$ sudo su -
Interestingly not when using
$ sudo su
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How to get vimrc colours to fill the screen?
I have a colour scheme set in vimrc. When I set it and set the term variable to xterm-256color I had the background colour only on the text. I then found the solution to set the term variable to ...
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Xterm configuration: colors work, font size not?
echo $TERM replies xterm-256color and my .Xresources file looks like this:
*dpi: 165
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.rgba: rgb
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run xterm as subprocess not take startup script/environment
I am using Debian/Jessie linux,
When I launch xterm from my project to run external project, xterm here not takes my environments variables, in other way it is not takes the startup scripts .bashrc ...
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Ctrl+Shift+Page{Up,Down} in tmux
Trying to make C-S-PageUp and C-S-PageDown work in tmux but no success so far.
Here are my config steps:
bind-key -n C-PageUp previous-window
bind-key -n C-PageDown next-window
bind-key -n C-S-PageUp ...
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Can't use enter key to execute commands in zsh
I recently installed zsh (v5.1.1) on a new ubuntu setup, but when I switch to it in gnome-terminal, I cannot seem to use to the enter key to execute the command. The only way I can execute commands is ...
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