On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:39:39PM EST, Mike McClain wrote: [..]
> That said the complexities of 'nix is a broad subject and though > I've been a user for many years there is still so much I don't > know that it's easy to get overwhelmed. Rob's shortcut for instance: > uxterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > I've looked at the man pages for xterm and uxterm and can see that > '-fn' sets the font but have yet to find the explaination for the > '-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' part of that line. Take a look at this.. Chapter 7, IIRC.. http://www.archive.org/stream/xwindowsytemosf03querarch/xwindowsytemosf03querarch.djvu Unless your browser can display it, you need to download the .djvu file and you can use the ‘evince’ viewer to access it. It's a scanned copy of the original and much smaller and better quality than the .pdf. If you're interested in the way ‘X’ handles font specification, you will also find a very clear description of how you can put to good use such standard utilities as ‘xfd’ and ‘xfontsel’. > I read through the man page for bind several times trying to understand > how it could be used to setup key bindings and would probably be still > scratching my head had 'which bind' not come up empty. Shoot... I remember thinking.. need to tell him that bind is a shell builtin.. so you need to use ‘help bind’ or better ‘man bash’ (or ‘info bash’) .. not ‘man bind’.. and I forgot. > 'help bind' showed me the bind you guys were using/discussing. > I work mainly on the commandline and have setup my own inputrc and > a script that calls loadkeys for readline editing functions in bash such > as ^Home --> bash:backward-kill-line but never used bind by itself. > > Speaking of which, these mappings don't seem to carry over into xterm. > Can you point the way to setup similar bash functionality in xterm? I would suspect this may have to do with navigation keys support in XTerm .. arrows, Home.. End.. Pgup.. etc. I don't know the details because I do my best NOT to use any keys that live beyond my stubby fingers' reach but if you google for something like ‘xterm arrow keys’ or ‘xterm home end key’ etc. you should quickly be able to tell whether this is relevant or yet just another bad guess on my part. If I guessed right, it's likely going to boil down to your terminal description (cf. the contents of the $TERM environment variable) - not describing such capabilities for the benefit of client applications. Mileage solving problems in this area varies. cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110216181949.GF4201@pavo.local
