On Sunday, 12 June 2022 03:21:50 EDT Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have > > konsole and termit, and termit will work from x and give me mouse > > driven copy/ paste. But its a teeny litle thing on this monitors > > screen. > > Execute > > xterm &
root@coyote:~# xterm & [1] 3504 root@coyote:~# -bash: xterm: command not found ^C [1]+ Exit 127 xterm root@coyote:~# logout gene@coyote:~$ xterm & [1] 3533 gene@coyote:~$ bash: xterm: command not found xterm cannot be found by synaptic or apt either. So I'll repeat, what is this magic xterm? What do I install to get it? What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm. > in one of the terminal windows which the pulldown menu gives you. > There should pop up a xterm window with black background and white > writing. > > man xterm gives a lot of options which influence the look of the > terminal window. My favorite look is achieved by > > xterm -geometry 80x24 -bg wheat -fg black -sl 10000 +sb & > > (+sb suppresses the scroll bar. Scroll up and down by Shift+PageUp and > Shift+PageDown. -sl 10000 gives a long scroll memory.) > > Repeat as often as needed to get the desired number of xterms. > > Consider to put your favorite xterm command into a script, so you can > start it by a simple shell command like > my_xterm > > (Consider to learn how to add such a command to the menus of the > desktop or window manager. I gave my fvwm an "xterm" button by this > line in ~/.fvwm2rc : > *FvwmButtons xterm linuxterm.xpm Exec xterm -bg wheat -fg black -sl > 10000 +sb -title xterm ) > > > If the default character size is too small for you: > > Ctrl+RightMouseButton in the xterm window gives a menu with sizes > Default Unreadable Tiny Small Medium Large Huge > > If you are willing to dive into the sea of fonts, search the web for > proposals like > > xterm ...other.options... -fn '*courier-bold-r*140*' & > > xterm ...other.options... -fn 10x20 & > > Found on: > > https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/x-window-system/9780937175149/Cha > pter05.html where i read: > "This wouldn’t be so bad if a typical font name wasn’t mind-bending > at first glance." > > (Ah ... 1990s nostalgy ...) > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > > . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
