mate-terminal showing unwanted text when it starts i’am on parrot OS, after a forced restart my mate-terminal begun showing text from bashrc every time it started, after a "clear" it goes away and the prompt is properly colored and everything is functional. i checked bashrc and there is nothing wrong with it. i don’t know …
is it possible to have application-specific xterm settings? I know how to write an .Xresources file to modify the appearance of xterm. However, I wonder if it is possible to have application specific .Xresources, such that I can use the light solarized theme for when I use mutt (xterm -e mutt), a dark solarized theme …
Change the font used by XTerm for its menus Here I am, using a 185 dpi display, and the font of XTerm menus¹ borders the unreadable small. Investigating XTerm’s XResources, I found a promising name but $ xrdb -merge XTerm*SimpleMenu*menuLabel.font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-180-100-100-*-*-iso10646-1^D $ didn’t help. Is it possible to specify a larger font for XTerm’s menus? …
Mouse-click stopped positioning cursor in shell (readline) in XTerm after upgrade from Fedora 18 to 36 I am using the following control sequence to set up that when I click in the command line in shell (BASH) in XTerm the cursor moves to the position. At least, it used to worked that way in my …
write an ascii extended code to xterm I can copy and paste text with extended codes into xterm (really xfce4-terminal), and they show up just fine. Piping extended characters to a hex editor shows them just fine for example: " Stéphane " in hex shows as: "53 74 c3 a9 70 68 61 6e 65 …
Make XTerm font bigger with no access to .bash_profile I have a script.sh that runs xterm, I do not have write access to script.sh , .bash_profile , I cannot change it. I want to change the font size of xterm, I changed ~/.Xresources as described. No effect. I tried alias xterm = "xterm -fa Monospace …
Disable UXTerm has keyboard shortcuts on uppercase letters I just configured UXTerm in ~/.Xresources. When I wanted to start using UXTerm, I noticed that some keyboard shortcuts are on Shift + , which is a total blocker. I use Neo2 as my main keyboard layout. All the systems shortcuts expect that layout, even the disc …
Xterm cd command not working in launch option When I launch xterm with the following command: xterm -e ‘cd ~’ -hold A new xterm window pops up saying: xterm: Can’t execvp cd ~: No such file or directory After which the xterm window is still in my current directory, where I can run cd ~ …
Historical reason for function keys having non-consecutive key sequences in xterm I’m using gnome-terminal as my terminal emulator, which sets TERM=xterm-256color. The key sequences sent when pressing the function keys F1, F2, … are as printed by $ infocmp -L1 | grep _f | sort -V key_f1=EOP, key_f2=EOQ, key_f3=EOR, key_f4=EOS, # gap 4 key_f5=E[15~, # …
Xterm / Aterm takes ages to redraw the screen when changing workspace This is a weird problem that i’m having, so i love xterm i’ve been using it for over a decade, and I’ve never had any problems with it. I was using it xterm fine under debian / gentoo / solaris / hp ux, …
Clearing tmux terminal throws error: "'tmux-256color': unknown terminal type." Originally, I was trying to determine why some directories show up differently colored than others when using the ls command. While playing around with this. I have now encountered the problem of not being able to clear the screen inside a tmux terminal $ clear ‘tmux-256color’: …
How to make XTerm smaller-vt-font() and larger-vt-font() use smoother steps? I’m using smaller-vt-font() and larger-vt-font() to quickly change the font size. However, the steps in which the font size changes are too big and I want them to be smoother so the resulting font sizes are closer to the default font size. After doing some …
Every time I press Crtl+f, Xterm opens despite not being a global keybind; how can I disable this behaviour? I think some programs use xterm, so I don’t want to uninstall it, but I use bash and Konsole for my terminal, so I don’t need it bound to a key, especially Ctrl+f as it makes …
Access xterm's scrollback buffer as a file Is it possible to, somehow, access xterm’s scrollback buffer as a (read-only) file or a character device? The core issue (to avoid x/y “problemming”), is this: sometimes the command I’ve just executed creates non-deterministic output, and I’d like to use its output somehow without pre-thought of tee-ing it. …
Start xterm with different shell and execute commands My default shell environment is bash and I would like to start a xterm with zsh and execute some commands. In general, to execute some commands, I am using the following xterm -e “ls -lrt;pwd;whoami” This is executing the commands in bash shell with xterm. To start …
Enable Ctrl+C for copy and Ctrl+Shift+C for interrupt I would like to enable Ctrl+C for copy and Ctrl+Shift+C for SIGINT/interrupt in xterm. I have found the following. XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override Shift Ctrl<Key>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) n Shift Ctrl<Key>V: insert-selection(PRIMARY) n Shift<Btn1Down>: select-start() n Shift<Btn1Motion>: select-extend() n Shift<Btn1Up>: select-end(CLIPBOARD) n which I believe is partially there but doesn’t give …
How to hide fullscreen CLI program output in xterm on FreeBSD? When I use a fullscreen CLI program on Ubuntu (like less or vim) in xterm and then quit it, the fullscreen output of that program is not visible anymore. However, when I do the same on FreeBSD, the fullscreen output just stays there, above …
Cannot enable TrueColor support in tmux via overriding terminfo dist: Arch Linux. I have an st build from AUR and tmux from official repo. In st I meet a good TrueColor support that works with last Vim version via termguicolors option. But when i tried to bring this to tmux i faced some issues. At …
Print a 256-color test pattern in the terminal How do I print a 256-colour test pattern in my terminal? I want to check that my terminal correctly supports 256 colours. Asked By: Tom Hale || Source 256-colour test pattern For the above, you can use my bash code. (“Look Ma, no subprocesses!”) Or for a …
Ranger file manager – Open gnome-terminal instead of xterm I recently started using Ranger as my default file manager, and I’m really enjoying it. Right now, I’ve managed to change rifle.conf so that when I play audio or video from Ranger, mpv opens in a new xterm window and the media starts to play. However, …
