Questions tagged [xterm]
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How do I ask screen to behave like a standard bash shell?
Just learned about the screen command on linux - it is genius. I love it. However, the actual terminal/prompt in screen looks and behaves differently than my standard bash prompt. That is, the colors aren't the same, tab completion doesn't seem…
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thornomad
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OS X Terminal lines don't go into scrollback
I have a problem that crops up when using Mac OS X's Terminal (TERM=xterm): sometimes it gets itself into a state where lines that scroll off the top are not added to the scrollback buffer. I'm not using screen or similar; this is a plain bash shell…
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Steve Madsen
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Problems with cron script and TERM definition using top command
I have a problem executing a cron process to check current CPU use in my server.
My script start with:
top -c -n 1 -u www-data > /tmp/kill-cpu
I can execute without problem in console, but in cron I get
top: failed tty get
If I use the -b option…
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Lito
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What is the best TERM type on AIX for use with PuTTY, and which PuTTY settings should be tweaked?
I manage many AIX machines, generally version 5.3.
Basic terminal function works just fine, but it seems like some things don't. For example nmon displays lqqx instead of the line drawing…
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Joe Koberg
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Freebsd doesn't show command output correctly in Putty
I have just installed the latest stable version of FreeBSD to a computer and I have the following problem:
If, in Putty, I issue a command like ps uxa which gives long lines of output, they get cropped. ps uxa|more doesn't help. Even if I do ps uxa…
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skrostislav
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X over ssh works for one user but not another
I have a CentOS 6.5 server with the following situation:
I can ssh to the root user of this server from a Mac OS X machine. It connects relatively quickly, and allows me to fire off xterm sessions.
I can ssh to a different account on this same…
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Tony B
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What are the color names in TERM=xterm256 for colors > 16?
I'm trying to set my xterm background color to "color 234" in xterm256 color mode, but I don't know what to pass to the "-bg" option. I've tried "color234", "Color234", but those are not defined.
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where's the fire
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Anyone suggest a good ssh terminal emulator for windows (connecting to RHEL box) and proper terminal type?
We have an old C program which has traditionally been run from SCO boxes. We have a customer that went with RackSpace running RHEL and we got the app recompiled. We have a problem with terminal emulation though. We've been trying PuTTY over SSH,…
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Mark Freeman
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Is there a way to get an xterm to scroll to clear the screen?
I'm working on a Ubuntu Linux machine and I'm looking for a way to get the xterm to scroll when things are cleared rather than clearing the screen and showing the previous contents.
This may not make sense so a couple examples might. When I run vim…
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Ed.
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User created with useradd instead of adduser loads a wrong Prompt
I've designed my bash prompt like this \u@\h>
When i now create the User example with adduser, my prompt looks like example@host>
But when i create a User with useradd, my prompt looks like \u@\h>
PS1: \[\e]0;\u@\h:…
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Leon Mydla
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Disable clear at start of screen via .screenrc?
Is there any way to disable the behavior of gnu-screen, of issuing a clear at startup?
I'm using screen merely as a backstop, so that if disconnected, the session isn't HUP'ed. And I've got my shell (bash) config'd to "exec screen -A" on login, so…
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mvgfr
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Some keys not working under screen in vim
When using vim under screen, some keys are not working.
Namely, Pressing Alt-Left produces '3D'
and Alt-Right produces '3C'
Also, pressing Up/Down when scrolling list of files in Command-T plugin produces 'A' and 'B' respectively.
When I exit the…
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Art
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How do I remotely invoke an xterm on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
I need to invoke an xterm on a SLES 11 machine (machine A) from another SLES 11 machine (machine B). Currently it doesn't work. So I decided to test some stuff.
On machine A the following works: DISPLAY=:0.0 xterm
However this doesn't:…
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James
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Gnome on Thin Client from Ubuntu Server Host?
I was wondering if there was a way to run Gnome (or XFCE) from either an X terminal thin client such as a netbook running only XWindows or even perhaps a Windows maching using Xming or X/Cygwin and have the Window manager and desktop hosted from an…
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wag2639
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Is xterm the terminal window we open in Ubuntu
I know this is a very naive question.
I was reading somewhere that Linux allows 7 xterm's. However, I can start more than 7 terminal apps from my Ubuntu system (Application -> Accessories -> Terminal).
There is definetely a hole in my knowledge...…
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Parag
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