Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I have not said it is more “standard for terminals”, I have that it
> > is more “standard” fullstop. It is more standard by the virtue of
> > having worked for decades, C-Ins S-Ins S-Del existed way before the
> > C-C C-V C-X tryptich, and still working today in most cont
On 07/02/2024 19:20, Nicolas George wrote:
Max Nikulin (12024-02-07):
It may be a convention for applications other than terminals, however I am
unsure what "standard" means for terminals.
I have not said it is more “standard for terminals”, I have that it is
more “standard” fullstop. It is mo
> I have not said it is more “standard for terminals”, I have that it is
> more “standard” fullstop. It is more standard by the virtue of having
> worked for decades, C-Ins S-Ins S-Del existed way before the C-C C-V C-X
> tryptich, and still working today in most contexts.
Indeed, IIUC these key b
Max Nikulin (12024-02-07):
> It may be a convention for applications other than terminals, however I am
> unsure what "standard" means for terminals.
I have not said it is more “standard for terminals”, I have that it is
more “standard” fullstop. It is more standard by the virtue of having
worked
On 21/08/2023 16:16, Karl Vogel wrote:
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 10:38:34PM -0400, Max Nikulin wrote:
Xterm configuration options may be put to ~/.Xresources, e.g.
xterm*VT100.faceName: ...
I am curious if there are actual advantages of usage a wrapper script
instead of xresources.
...
#
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 10:38:34PM -0400, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 20/08/2023 14:55, Karl Vogel wrote:
> > #!/bin/sh
> ...
> > # -fa 'xft:...' font size and weight
> ...
> > ( $XTERM $geo $topts -fa "$FONT" -title "Remote" ) &
>
> Xterm configuration options may be put to ~/.Xres
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:57:00PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:53:59PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > When linux was first written, the IBM PC was 15 years old.
>
> *10
>
> I'm not sure if it's math or typing that's hard
All three of them, actually ;-)
Cheers
--
t
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 13:06:40 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:20:05 -0400
> gene heskett wrote:
>
> > Now, I really need a terminal for alt-ctl-F3 that does support the
> > mouse.
>
> charles@hawk:~$ apt show gpm
[ … ]
> Description: General Purpose Mouse interface
>
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:53:59PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
When linux was first written, the IBM PC was 15 years old.
*10
I'm not sure if it's math or typing that's hard
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:06:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new
fangled EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does.
new fan
On Monday, June 13, 2022 11:35:29 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Let's get some actual numbers in here. From wikipedia:
>
> IBM PC with proprietary BIOS introduced: 1981
> Linus Torvalds begins writing Linux: 1991
Efforts started toward EFI (predecessor in some sense of UEFI) -- see below:
199
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:06:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote:
> > new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when linux
> > was first written...
> If that is what they taught you in history, Michael, sue the the school.
*sigh*
Let's ge
On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new fangled
EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does.
new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when
li
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new fangled
EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does.
new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when linux
was first written...
So having tw
On 2022-06-12 18:34, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
On Sunday 12 June 2022 12:54:19 pm mick crane wrote:
As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the
disk
thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get
things
working one at a time afterwards.
Were I run
On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:20:05 -0400
gene heskett wrote:
> Now, I really need a terminal for alt-ctl-F3 that does support the
> mouse.
charles@hawk:~$ apt show gpm
Package: gpm
Version: 1.20.7-8
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Axel Beckert
Installed-Size: 553 kB
Pre-Depends: init-sy
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 17:00:42 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:20:05PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> >
> > On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
> > > > What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm.
On Sunday 12 June 2022 12:54:19 pm mick crane wrote:
> As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk
> thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things
> working one at a time afterwards.
Were I running into these kinds of hassles, that would
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:20:05PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
>
> On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
> > > What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm.
> > For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and,
On 6/12/22 12:41, Dan Ritter wrote:
gene heskett wrote:
On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
That's not the important first impression however. Installing without a root
pw, I am prevented from doing anything to the system setup
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 11:42:06AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> If blkid is missing, so is lsblk,
unicorn:~$ type blkid
blkid is /sbin/blkid
unicorn:~$ type lsblk
lsblk is /bin/lsblk
Betcha it's a PATH thing.
On 2022-06-12 17:20, gene heskett wrote:
I so want you to succeed and I can't be a lot of help.
As mentioned before, if it was me, I'd remove everything except the disk
thing you want to boot with that has the OS on it and add and get things
working one at a time afterwards.
mick
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On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 12:20:05 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
> > > What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm.
> > For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and,
> > p
gene heskett wrote:
>
> On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
> That's not the important first impression however. Installing without a root
> pw, I am prevented from doing anything to the system setup cuz everything
> but synapti
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 03:53:49 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> Thomas Schmitt composed on 2022-06-12 09:21 (UTC+0200):
> > 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/
On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm.
For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and, presumably,
keystrokes).
Well, I gave up and did another 29t install, but in
On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
> What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm.
For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and, presumably,
keystrokes).
I was going to restrain myself and not send this, but I succumbed ... sorry
for the noise.
On Sunday, June 12, 2022 03:53:49 AM Felix Miata wrote:
> Why this tangent to Gene's foibles?
I shouldn't do this, but ...
(And no criticism intended of anyone, specifically Thomas Schmitt.)
s/song/threa
Hi,
it comes to me that Debian has an official screenshot of one of my xterms.
So here is an xterm with -bg wheat -fg black:
https://screenshots.debian.net/shrine/screenshot/15899/simage/large-de6e648f9ed3746646ab2120ba5da1f0.png
It is a bit higher than usual, to take all lines which i wanted
Hi,
Gene Heskett wrote:
> xterm cannot be found by synaptic or apt either.
The package xterm exists and has versions in all current releases of Debian.
See:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xterm
Try
sudo apt-get install xterm
or
sudo apt install xterm
> So I'll repeat, what is this mag
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:08:49AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 07:53:21AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > gene@coyote:~$ bash: xterm: command not found
> >
> > xterm cannot be found by synaptic or apt either.
>
> unicorn:~$ apt policy xterm
> xterm:
> Installed: 366-1+d
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 07:53:21AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> gene@coyote:~$ bash: xterm: command not found
>
> xterm cannot be found by synaptic or apt either.
unicorn:~$ apt policy xterm
xterm:
Installed: 366-1+deb11u1
Candidate: 366-1+deb11u1
Version table:
*** 366-1+deb11u1 500
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 07:53:21AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> 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 m
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
Hi,
Felix Miata wrote:
> What purpose does an Xterm serve that can't be fulfilled by Konsole?
Dunno. xterm was proposed to Gene Heskett for use and he stated that
it's not available in the desktop menus.
> Why this tangent to Gene's foibles?
To give some tangible information and to enable a be
Thomas Schmitt composed on 2022-06-12 09:21 (UTC+0200):
> 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.
> Ex
On Monday, August 10, 2020 at 7:50:04 AM UTC-4, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:14:30PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 09:59:12AM +0200, tomas wrote:
> > > To verify/falsify that, you might run xprop on your xterm window.
> > > The property you are look
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 07:16:34PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 07:03:26PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> > Should I try with another window-manager? I will also double-check that
> > the other working buster MATE installation uses marco.
>
> The bug is NOT present with co
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 07:03:26PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> Should I try with another window-manager? I will also double-check that
> the other working buster MATE installation uses marco.
The bug is NOT present with compiz.
The bug IS NOT present on a fresh buster install with marco.
I tr
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 01:47:08PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Have you tried another "classic" X program? For example xmag or xeyes?
Yes, they fail miserably.
> xterm in a special way, or the decorations of all "classic" X programs
> fail in the same way.
I would guess that.
Should I try
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:14:30PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 09:59:12AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > To verify/falsify that, you might run xprop on your xterm window.
> > The property you are looking for is called WM_NAME. You can even
>
> xprop | grep WM_NAME
> W
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 09:59:12AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> To verify/falsify that, you might run xprop on your xterm window.
> The property you are looking for is called WM_NAME. You can even
xprop | grep WM_NAME
WM_NAME(STRING) = "schaefer@reliand: /home/schaefer"
> use xprop to /set/ t
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 06:52:22PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> > > What about if you use another window-manager and/or desktop-environment?
> >
> > I haven't tried that yet.
>
> I just tried twm and it says "Untitled" even with xterm -T abcd &
Oh, that is a hint: it seems xterm is failing to t
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 02:22:44PM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> I assume you're using the system xterm, not something in /usr/local or
> $HOME.
yes
schaefer@reliand:~$ which xterm
/usr/bin/xterm
(BTW was working nice before upgrade to buster)
> Could the problem be locale-related? I have
>
>
Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> I have a funny problem since I upgraded my laptop to buster: xterm does not
> have any title.
>
> It is the only window that has this problem. I did not see anything special in
> the .Xresources.
>
> Anyone having this issue ?
I can't reproduce the problem (MATE, marco, x
On 2020-08-08 17:52, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> What about if you use another window-manager and/or desktop-environment?
I haven't tried that yet.
I just tried twm and it says "Untitled" even with xterm -T abcd &
with Buster it looks like I have
window manager XFwm4
display manager lightdm
deskt
> > What about if you use another window-manager and/or desktop-environment?
>
> I haven't tried that yet.
I just tried twm and it says "Untitled" even with xterm -T abcd &
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 08:25:39AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Does it affect other terminal emulators?
no, mate-terminal is not affected.
> Have you checked whether the problem also shows up for a freshly created
> user (i.e. without any config of your own)?
yes, it does.
> What about if yo
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 01:09:13PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 09:47:56AM +, Long Wind wrote:
> > have you looked at .bashrc?
>
> Actually, I have sent the usual title escape sequence: it works in
> mate-terminal,
> but xterm's title remains blank.
Xterm's title is
Hi Marc, long time no see,
> I have a funny problem since I upgraded my laptop to buster: xterm does not
> have any title.
> It is the only window that has this problem. I did not see anything special in
> the .Xresources.
Does it affect other terminal emulators?
Have you checked whether the prob
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 09:47:56AM +, Long Wind wrote:
> have you looked at .bashrc?
Actually, I have sent the usual title escape sequence: it works in
mate-terminal,
but xterm's title remains blank.
Thomas Schmitt :
Also I tried the -T option, with no success.
Running MATE in marco (buster
Hi,
Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> buster: xterm does not have any title.
> Anyone having this issue ?
Not on my (provisory) LXDE desktop.
xterms from the "System Tools" menu come with title "xterm".
The same with xterms started by: xterm &
xterms started by: xterm -T '' &
come up with the title "Unname
have you looked at .bashrc?
below is in my .bashrc of home dir:
# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac
On Saturday, August 8, 2020, 5:18:44 AM EDT, Marc SCHAEF
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 09:28:22PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> 2) My problem is pasting into xterm some unicode characters (see the
>question in my other email) - this is the part NOT working for me
>- everything else is working really well (i.e., so I don't need to
>use xmodmap at
Dear Sven,
Thanks for the e-mail.
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:12:22PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2015-01-07 09:38 +0100, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>
> > I regularly use the compose key to insert characters. The locale I
> > use, en_IN, doesn't have a Compose file in /usr/share/X11/locale, so I
>
On 2015-01-07 09:38 +0100, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> I regularly use the compose key to insert characters. The locale I
> use, en_IN, doesn't have a Compose file in /usr/share/X11/locale, so I
> copied the /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose file to
> ~/.XCompose.
>
> Now, most applications wor
Volker Wysk wrote:
> Am Freitag, 6. Dezember 2013, 10:51:30 schrieb Zenaan Harkness:
> > SOLVED (gmail breaks threads sorry - I'll upgrade to mutt again next year).
I know you said solved. Good. It sounds from what was written like
it might not be solved yet though.
In any case I will note that
Am Freitag, 6. Dezember 2013, 10:51:30 schrieb Zenaan Harkness:
> SOLVED (gmail breaks threads sorry - I'll upgrade to mutt again next year).
>
> On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:29 +0100, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2013, 23:50:04 schrieb Zenaan Harkness:
> ..
>
> >> And running bin
SOLVED (gmail breaks threads sorry - I'll upgrade to mutt again next year).
On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:29 +0100, Volker Wysk wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2013, 23:50:04 schrieb Zenaan Harkness:
..
>> And running bind ~/.inputrc, CTRL+LeftArrow and
>> CTRL+RightArrow display the usual problemat
Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2013, 23:50:04 schrieb Zenaan Harkness:
> I'm running on sid.
>
> With the following in ~/.inputrc :
>
> $include /etc/inputrc
> "\e[1;5C": forward-word
> "\e[1;5D": backward-word
> "\e[5C": forward-word
> "\e[5D": backward-word
> "\e\e[C": forward-word
> "\e\e[D": back
Lennart Andersen wrote:
> if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then
> . /etc/default/locale
> export LANG LANGUAGE
> fi
>
> I commented it out and I get my locales that I want in xterm
Instead of commenting that out I think it would be better to set the
desired locale in /etc/default/locale. You can
* Lennart Andersen [2011-07-06 16:30-0400]
> Hi All,
>
> Have a little problem with xterm, when I launch xterm from gnome it sets the
> XTERM_LOCAL
> to en_CA and I want it to be da_DK, which it is when I launch a second
> instants from
> the open xterm. I can't seem to get it to go in the orig
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:30:42 -0400, Lennart Andersen wrote:
> Have a little problem with xterm, when I launch xterm from gnome it sets
> the XTERM_LOCAL to en_CA and I want it to be da_DK, which it is when I
> launch a second instants from the open xterm. I can't seem to get it to
> go in the orig
Bob Proulx writes:
> Lennart Andersen wrote:
>> Have a little problem with xterm, when I launch xterm from gnome it
>> sets the XTERM_LOCAL
>> to en_CA and I want it to be da_DK, which it is when I launch a
>
> [...]
> desired locale set. The use of ~/.xsession has been discussed many
> times on
Lennart Andersen wrote:
> Have a little problem with xterm, when I launch xterm from gnome it sets the
> XTERM_LOCAL
> to en_CA and I want it to be da_DK, which it is when I launch a second
> instants from
> the open xterm. I can't seem to get it to go in the original! Any suggestions?
One optio
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:58:51AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:31:01AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 06:25:29PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> > > Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
> >
> > I call xterm from a hotkey l
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:26:37PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:39:39AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:56:42AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> > uxterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> > I've looked at the man pages for xterm an
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:39:39AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:56:42AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> > but I don't do bind much.. just thought I'd tell Mike that nothing in
> > the stupid computer is ???above his head???..
>
> Thanks Chris for the vote of confidenc
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:47:27AM EST, Mike McClain wrote:
[..]
> After a day spent reading several articles on X and xterm I finally
> came to the realization that the use of bind you pointed out earlier
> in this thread would do what I wanted. Using ^v to see what the key
> combinations were s
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:19:49PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:39:39PM EST, Mike McClain wrote:
>
> > 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:bac
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
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:56:42AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> but I don't do bind much.. just thought I'd tell Mike that nothing in
> the stupid computer is ???above his head???..
Thanks Chris for the vote of confidence.
Since I've programmed in awk, several versions of basic (5?), C,
Forth,
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:33:13AM EST, Chris Jones wrote:
[..]
> He probably wants:
>
> $ xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
That should have been..
$ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
%-)
cj
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:16:43PM EST, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:52:09 -0500
> Chris Jones wrote:
>
> > $ bind '"\C-t": "xterm^M"'
> >
> > .. and press Ctrl-T you start a new xterm - try it.
> >
> > Notes:
> >
> > 1. to enter the ^M in the above bind command, you nee
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:52:09 -0500
Chris Jones wrote:
> $ bind '"\C-t": "xterm^M"'
>
> .. and press Ctrl-T you start a new xterm - try it.
>
> Notes:
>
> 1. to enter the ^M in the above bind command, you need to type CTRL-V
>and then hit the Enter key.
You can also use \n
Just in case y
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:52:09PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:58:51PM EST, Mike McClain wrote:
> > Rob your answer is way over my head. If I have any hotkeys in
> > X I don't know about them and I certainly don't know how to set one.
>
> Not it's not (over your head).
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:58:51PM EST, Mike McClain wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:31:01AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> > I call xterm from a hotkey like this:
> > uxterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> Rob your answer is way over my head. If I have any hotkeys in
> X I don
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:45:43AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
That's going to take some study but thanks Greg.
Mike
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:31:01AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 06:25:29PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> > Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
>
> I call xterm from a hotkey like this:
> uxterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Rob
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:52:54AM +, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> > Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
> One way is to put a line like one of the following in ~/.Xresources
> *font: 6x13
> XTerm*font: 7x14
> The latter affects just xt
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:06:02AM +, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 14 Feb 2011 at 18:25:29 -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> > Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
>
> XTerm*font: 10x20
>
> in .Xresources.
Thanks Brian.
Mike
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:52:54AM EST, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> > Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to
> > Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
> > it's usable to my old eyes. I'd like to automate that but have never
> > figured out how
Gregory Seidman writes:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:06:02AM +, Brian wrote:
>> On Mon 14 Feb 2011 at 18:25:29 -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
>>
>> > Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to
>> > Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
>> >
On Tue 15 Feb 2011 at 09:52:54 +, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> One way is to put a line like one of the following in ~/.Xresources
>
> *font: 6x13
> XTerm*font: 7x14
>
> The latter affects just xterm, but the former affects anything that
> uses a font resource (xte
On Tue 15 Feb 2011 at 08:45:43 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> This is the right approach. Incidentally, it doesn't matter whether it's
> .Xdefaults or .Xresources or anything else, as long as your .xinitrc (or
> whatever X startup system you're using) runs xrdb on it. I'll just add one
> thing.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:06:02AM +, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 14 Feb 2011 at 18:25:29 -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
>
> > Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to
> > Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
> > it's usable to my old eyes. I'd lik
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 06:25:29PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to
> Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
> it's usable to my old eyes. I'd like to automate that but have never
> figured out how.
> I've tr
> Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to
> Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
> it's usable to my old eyes. I'd like to automate that but have never
> figured out how.
> I've tried set-vt-font in .Xdefaults but that didn't help and don't
>
On Mon 14 Feb 2011 at 18:25:29 -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to
> Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
> it's usable to my old eyes. I'd like to automate that but have never
> figured out how.
> I've tried
> Have you tried already?
I have now..thanks Ben thanks Tiago
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Charles,
I don´t know if will help you, but you can try to edit the ~/.bash_history
file.
Have you tried already?
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Charles Kroeger
wrote:
> I have a lot of commands saved in Xterm. I know:
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:10:21AM +0200, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> zhang zhengquan writes:
>
> >Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me...
>
> To verify that the correct resources are being used, run
> "xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font,
> or display an error th
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:34:46AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> zhang zhengquan writes:
>
> >Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me...
>
> To verify that the correct resources are being used, run
> "xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font,
> or display an error th
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:42:49AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 08 Apr 2009, zhang zhengquan wrote:
> > 2009/4/8 Rob Starling :
> > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > >> > On Tue, Apr 0
zhang zhengquan writes:
>Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me...
To verify that the correct resources are being used, run
"xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font,
or display an error that it cannot find the font.
If this gives you a different font to what you norma
On 08 Apr 2009, zhang zhengquan wrote:
> 2009/4/8 Rob Starling :
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> >> > > I think I have a
2009/4/8 Rob Starling :
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
>> > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything,
>
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything,
> > > so how can I tell my dpi
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything,
> > so how can I tell my dpi is low?
>
> Run
>
> xdpyinfo | grep -E 'dim|resol'
dim
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