Re: xterm question

2011-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-18 Thread David Jardine
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-18 Thread Rob Owens
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

Re: xterm question [SOLVED]

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Jones
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

Re: xterm question [SOLVED]

2011-02-17 Thread Mike McClain
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Jones
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-16 Thread Mike McClain
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,

Re: xterm question

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Jones
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread briand
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Mike McClain
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).

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:45:43AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: That's going to take some study but thanks Greg. Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Mike McClain
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Mike McClain
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Mike McClain
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 -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii r

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Csanyi Pal
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 >> >

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Brian
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Brian
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.

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Gregory Seidman
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Rob Owens
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

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Clive Standbridge
> 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 >

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Brian
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

Re: Xterm question

2009-09-10 Thread Charles Kroeger
> Have you tried already? I have now..thanks Ben thanks Tiago -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Xterm question

2009-09-10 Thread Tiago Almeida
Charles, I don“t know if will help you, but you can try to edit the ~/.bash_history file. Have you tried already? -- Tiago Almeida tiagov...@gmail.com

Re: Xterm question

2009-09-10 Thread Ben Olive
I you are using bash, there is a file call .bash_history in your home directory. You can delete lines you want to get rid of and then just close and reopen the terminal to reload it. --Ben On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > I have a lot of commands saved in Xterm. I know:

Re: Xterm question.....

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 14 November 2002 11:10, Urban Gabor wrote: > Hi, > > may be, this question is quite newbie. My xterm uses > xterm-debian setting, and I can't use backspace. How can I > solve this? Since noone else mentions it, I'll do. Try (from your shell): stty erase C-V Backspace where C-

Re: Xterm question.....

2002-11-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:10:41 +0100, Urban Gabor wrote: > may be, this question is quite newbie. My xterm uses > xterm-debian setting, and I can't use backspace. How can I > solve this? It depends where. Type "cat > /dev/null" and return, then type some text, then the backspace key. What do