Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread David Wright
te: > >>>>Richard Owlett wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>Therefore I'll change my metaphor. > >>>>>It is routine for one machine to support multiple > >>>>>independent terminals. > >>>>>Logically one expect that those termina

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread David Christensen
ndent terminals. Logically one expect that those terminals could appear on the host device. How might this be done? Hi, first you write you want to have independent terminals on your machine and then you complain that the workspaces share same background icon. Can you clarify what you wa

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/17/2018 01:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/17/18 04:46, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/17/2018 01:57 AM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Therefore I'll change my metaphor. It is routine for one machine to support multiple independent terminals. Logically one expect that

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread David Christensen
On 02/17/18 04:46, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/17/2018 01:57 AM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Therefore I'll change my metaphor. It is routine for one machine to support multiple independent terminals. Logically one expect that those terminals could appear on the host device.

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > See my reply to deloptes. > I was told by English professors since the 60's that my composition > skills lack ... ;/ :D and for the past 55y you did not improve :D - you should be ashamed!

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/17/2018 05:27 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 01:08:58AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I use the MATE desktop. I had originally thought I could achieve my goals using MATE's workspaces. I've read this post over, several times, but can't work out what your actual question is.

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/17/2018 01:57 AM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Therefore I'll change my metaphor. It is routine for one machine to support multiple independent terminals. Logically one expect that those terminals could appear on the host device. How might this be done? Hi, first you

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 01:08:58AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I use the MATE desktop. I had originally thought I could achieve my goals > using MATE's workspaces. I've read this post over, several times, but can't work out what your actual question is. Could you restate it plainly? Cheers, T

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > Therefore I'll change my metaphor. > It is routine for one machine to support multiple independent terminals. > Logically one expect that those terminals could appear on the host device. > > How might this be done? Hi, first you write you want

Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-16 Thread Richard Owlett
ndividually named, but they share the same wallpaper and desktop icons with each other. Therefore I'll change my metaphor. It is routine for one machine to support multiple independent terminals. Logically one expect that those terminals could appear on the host device. How might this be done? TIA

Re: Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-06 Thread Alessandro T.
On 05/02/2017 23:18, deloptes wrote: > [...] > now check for tty > > cat /etc/default/console-setup > # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON > > # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page. > > ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" > > CHARMAP="UTF-8" > > CODESET="guess" > FONTFACE="Fixed" > FONTSIZE="8x16" >

Re: Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-05 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 17 pluviôse, an CCXXV, deloptes a écrit : > In addition to LANG/LC_ALL, stty iutf8 is needed to tell the terminal what > to do stty iutf8 is completely unrelated to the problem at hand. The modes in the tty layer have nothing to do with fine control of what is displayed on the tty, esp

Re: Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-05 Thread deloptes
Alessandro T. wrote: > Isn't localization set by locale? > > Anyway I did: > $ export | grep LC > > > $ locale > LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE= > LC_CTYPE="it_IT.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="it_IT.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="it_IT.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="it_IT.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="it_IT.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="it_IT.U

Re: Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-05 Thread Alessandro T.
On 05/02/2017 18:45, deloptes wrote: > > there are two basic things - localization and fonts. > Localization is set via LC variables so > export | grep LC > would tell your settings. > Fonts are provided via console package, but they should be utf8 anyway. Thanks for reply. Isn't localization se

Re: Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-05 Thread deloptes
Alessandro T. wrote: > Hello and thanks for the reply. there are two basic things - localization and fonts. Localization is set via LC variables so export | grep LC would tell your settings. Fonts are provided via console package, but they should be utf8 anyway. regards

Re: Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-05 Thread Alessandro T.
On 04/02/2017 23:45, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 11:07:39AM +0100, Alessandro T. wrote: >> echo -e '1\u0336' >> >> and with mlterm, pterm, rxvt and xterm I got, rightly, strikethrough 1. >> Instead with evilvte, gnome-terminal, lilyterm, lxterminal, sakura, >> terminator, term

Re: Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-05 Thread Alessandro T.
On 04/02/2017 18:07, Darac Marjal wrote: > > Just to note, I have tried this same command in xfce-terminal 0.8.3 > (which is in testing and unstable and depends on libvte-2.91-1 version > 0.46.1-1) and I /do/ get a struckthrough 1. > Hello and thanks for the reply. I am in Sid. ( I have your same

Re: Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 11:07:39AM +0100, Alessandro T. wrote: > echo -e '1\u0336' > > and with mlterm, pterm, rxvt and xterm I got, rightly, strikethrough 1. > Instead with evilvte, gnome-terminal, lilyterm, lxterminal, sakura, > terminator, terminix, termit, vala-terminal and xfce4-terminal (my

Re: Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-04 Thread Darac Marjal
Just to note, I have tried this same command in xfce-terminal 0.8.3 (which is in testing and unstable and depends on libvte-2.91-1 version 0.46.1-1) and I /do/ get a struckthrough 1. So, if you're using stable (you don't actually say which versions of the packages you tries), then the bug may alre

Re: Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 11:07:39 +0100 "Alessandro T." wrote: > Hi, > I would get the strikethrough text in x-terminal-emulator. So I tried > > echo -e '1\u0336' > > and with mlterm, pterm, rxvt and xterm I got, rightly, strikethrough 1. > Instead with evilvte, gnome-terminal, lilyterm,

Some x-terminals do not compose unicode characters

2017-02-03 Thread Alessandro T.
Hi, I would get the strikethrough text in x-terminal-emulator. So I tried echo -e '1\u0336' and with mlterm, pterm, rxvt and xterm I got, rightly, strikethrough 1. Instead with evilvte, gnome-terminal, lilyterm, lxterminal, sakura, terminator, terminix, termit, vala-terminal and xfce4-terminal (m

Re: ncurses screen corruption and terminals

2016-06-12 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 19:54 (UTC-0400): mc has been around for north of 30 years I believe, actually dateing back to dos-2.0 days or before. MC is a 22 year old clone of Norton Commander for DOS (which at the time of NC birth was v3.2, prior to existence of extended HD partition

Re: ncurses screen corruption and terminals

2016-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
which is *local* to the remote system when using a remote > terminal) works. Including what happens when the remote system does > NOT have a terminal entry for, e.g. TERM=xterm-debian-fix01 :-) > > As for "mc", apparently it is a special beast in its own right and it > is part of th

Re: ncurses screen corruption and terminals

2016-06-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 12 June 2016 22:13:19 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I can attest that Debian jessie's Konsole doesn't work quite right in > every situation with the "TERM=xterm" and Debian's terminfo, for > example. Gene is in fact using, or not using, Konsole-Trinity, not KDE-Konsole. Lisi

ncurses screen corruption and terminals

2016-06-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
al) works. Including what happens when the remote system does NOT have a terminal entry for, e.g. TERM=xterm-debian-fix01 :-) As for "mc", apparently it is a special beast in its own right and it is part of the problem: supposedly, it has so many workarounds for broken terminals and terminf

Re: transparent terminals in cinnamon

2015-05-12 Thread Francisco M Neto
My first guess would be that the terminal emulator you're using does not support transparency. Gnome-terminal, for instance. Try using one that does, like sakura (apt-get install sakura). Francisco On May 12, 2015 5:16 PM, "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Jessie with Cinna

transparent terminals in cinnamon

2015-05-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, I just installed Jessie with Cinnamon, and I notice that there’s no option in the terminal for a transparent background. Is there a way to enable this? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Strange behavior in real terminals

2014-10-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 03:06:04PM -0600, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Hello. > > I noticed that by using the cursor keys in the default terminals (Ctrl+Alt+1 > to 6) one can move the cursor to empty lines. Is this how it is supposed to > behave?. No. Bash usually hooks the Up

Strange behavior in real terminals

2014-10-26 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Hello. I noticed that by using the cursor keys in the default terminals (Ctrl+Alt+1 to 6) one can move the cursor to empty lines. Is this how it is supposed to behave?. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Terminals

2013-05-08 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/13 05:30, Bob Proulx wrote: > Darac Marjal wrote: >> But with some work you MIGHT be able to get it to start as a >> getty (a 'getty' is the program that init starts on the virtual >> console and which accepts your username/password before st

Re: Terminals

2013-04-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Lars Nooden wrote: > Another option is "cu", I'm not sure how it compares to minicom directly, > but I find it useful. A flashback to 1980/1990... An advantage of cu is that it integrates perfectly with uucp. If you have uucp installed, configured and running then it might be using the serial

Re: Terminals

2013-04-17 Thread Lars Nooden
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: [snip] > # apt-get install minicom [snip] > Then just leave it running forever. It will always be there when you > come back to that vt with Alt-F4. [snip] Another option is "cu", I'm not sure how it compares to minicom directly, but I find it useful.

Re: Terminals

2013-04-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Darac Marjal wrote: > ja...@jatos.co.uk wrote: > > Firstly need to know the name of the feature that allows me to > > access /dev/tty0, /dev/tty1 etc and switch between them by press > > alt+F1, alt+F2 and so on. > > These are "Virtual Terminals" or "Virt

Re: Terminals

2013-04-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:13:22AM +, ja...@jatos.co.uk wrote: > Hi > > Firstly need to know the name of the feature that allows me to access > /dev/tty0, /dev/tty1 etc and switch between them by press alt+F1, alt+F2 and > so on. These are "Virtual Terminals" or

Terminals

2013-04-17 Thread jamie
Hi Firstly need to know the name of the feature that allows me to access /dev/tty0, /dev/tty1 etc and switch between them by press alt+F1, alt+F2 and so on. Secondly, how would I configure this feature, in particular I'd like to configure it to allow me to press probably alt+F7 and access a se

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-11 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:42:12PM +0800, lina wrote: > > Without data, we can only speculate. Here's my wild speculation: > > > > You thought you had multiple terminals open, but what you had > > was a single master process with multiple sub-processes. A > >

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-10 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
ffe7fc7c0 error 4 in > libgobject-2.0.so.0.3200.4 > [7fbbadb0b000+4e000] > > > Is it related? Looks like the root of the issue. Though I am not sure why all gnome-terminals died. For the future, use screen or tmux and you will be able to attach to your sessions even if a

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-10 Thread lina
> Without data, we can only speculate. Here's my wild speculation: > > You thought you had multiple terminals open, but what you had > was a single master process with multiple sub-processes. A I did have multiple terminals open. It only happened once, at least in what I can r

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-10 Thread lina
> I´d also be interested in ~/.xsession-errors by the time of the incident. ** (xfce4-session:4890): WARNING **: ICE connection 0x7f00400422b0 rejected ** (gnome-terminal:22938): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager : Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-10 Thread lina
> Imho, the geeks are interested in the output of `dmesg' and the contents > of `/var/log/syslog'. Apr 10 23:57:01 dove kernel: [130001.429581] gnome-terminal[6910]: segfault at 1 ip 7fbbadb22816 sp 7e7fc7c0 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.3200.4 [7fbbadb0b000+4e000] Is it related?

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:01:33AM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > Right now, I have three or four terminals open, with 1 to 5 tabs in each > terminal, most are ssh out. > > In one terminal, I typed "more " > > just one blink, all those terminal-emulators gone.

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 10. April 2013 schrieb Benjamin Egner: > On 04/10/2013 06:01 PM, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Right now, I have three or four terminals open, with 1 to 5 tabs in > > each terminal, most are ssh out. > > > > In one terminal, I typed "more &

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-10 Thread Benjamin Egner
On 04/10/2013 06:01 PM, lina wrote: Hi, Right now, I have three or four terminals open, with 1 to 5 tabs in each terminal, most are ssh out. In one terminal, I typed "more " just one blink, all those terminal-emulators gone. It's my first time meet this issue. So I wonder wh

which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-10 Thread lina
Hi, Right now, I have three or four terminals open, with 1 to 5 tabs in each terminal, most are ssh out. In one terminal, I typed "more " just one blink, all those terminal-emulators gone. It's my first time meet this issue. So I wonder which may lead to this episode? Thanks

Re: Print a message to all terminals at boot

2012-02-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 1 March 2012 14:22, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> If it's static, you can add it to "/etc/issue". >> >> Or if the process can update /etc/issue before getty can display it. > > rc.local appears to run before the contents of /etc/issue is > disp

Re: Print a message to all terminals at boot

2012-02-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Jason Heeris wrote: >> > >> > line (ttyS0) and the usual tty ones. I would like to print a message >> > at the very end of the boot sequence, but before any user logs in (the >> > message is a diagnostic that may affect whether th

Re: Print a message to all terminals at boot

2012-02-29 Thread Jason Heeris
On 1 March 2012 14:26, Jason Heeris wrote: > Incidentally, it contains escape sequences ( \n \l ) at the end. Are > they for use with "echo -e" or something else entirely? Ah, just found the answer to this in "man issue" — they're escape sequences for getty (or whatever substitute). — Jason --

Re: Print a message to all terminals at boot

2012-02-29 Thread Jason Heeris
On 1 March 2012 14:22, Bob Proulx wrote: >> If it's static, you can add it to "/etc/issue". > > Or if the process can update /etc/issue before getty can display it. rc.local appears to run before the contents of /etc/issue is displayed... is that guaranteed (in squeeze), or just coincidental on m

Re: Print a message to all terminals at boot

2012-02-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > okay. The contents are displayed when getting displays the login > prompt. Meaning that when getting is started it will catch the Grr... s/getting/getty/g My typos are getting worse. Sorry for the noise. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Print a message to all terminals at boot

2012-02-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > Jason Heeris wrote: > > line (ttyS0) and the usual tty ones. I would like to print a message > > at the very end of the boot sequence, but before any user logs in (the > > message is a diagnostic that may affect whether the user logs in at all). > > If it's static, you can add it to

Re: Print a message to all terminals at boot

2012-02-29 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: > > I have a Debian Squeeze system that exposes a terminal on the serial > line (ttyS0) and the usual tty ones. I would like to print a message > at the very end of the boot sequence, but before any user logs in (the > message is a diagnostic t

Print a message to all terminals at boot

2012-02-29 Thread Jason Heeris
I have a Debian Squeeze system that exposes a terminal on the serial line (ttyS0) and the usual tty ones. I would like to print a message at the very end of the boot sequence, but before any user logs in (the message is a diagnostic that may affect whether the user logs in at all). If I put, say,

Xen dom0 virtual terminals

2012-02-11 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hi! This may be a naive question, but does anyone know how to enable the virtual terminals (Ctrl-Alt-Fx) on a Wheezy dom0? -- Best regards, Panayiotis Karabassis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-26 Thread Joel Rees
Ouch. >> [...] >> For example, Debian console installer runs on virtual console with >> japanese display or any fancy characters. This is because they run >> special terminal program. >> >>> Should be the same set of issues, except for the specific parameters, >>> for any large-character-set langu

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
(Forgot to reply to list.) On 12/26/11, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:10:48PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default >> language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows >> (for instance, apt-get),

Fwd: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
(Forgot to reply to list.) On 12/25/11, hvw59601 wrote: > Joel Rees wrote: >> For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default >> language to Japanese. > > > > Did you install with Japanese as the default language, or did you > install as some other language and change the defa

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:10:48PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default > language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows > (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in > Japanese, but the Japan

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread hvw59601
Joel Rees wrote: For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. Did you install with Japanese as the default language, or did you install as some other language and change the default? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:10:48PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default > language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows > (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in > Japanese, but the Japanese i

displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Joel Rees
For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in Japanese, but the Japanese is replaced by the Unicode replacement characters ("?"), which is no

No virtual terminals

2010-09-09 Thread edjabr
Running squeeze. I have NVidia video. Problem is, I have no virtual 8terminals. ctrl-alt-f1 to 6 gets me a blank screen, although c-a-f8 (yes, f8) does bring back X. I've looked for solutions but nothing I've found works. E.g., I created /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc.conf with one line

Ctrl+Ret in Terminals

2009-07-16 Thread nikdelimiter
"Enterer" ("carriage return") _is_ a control character. A pc keyboard sends keycodes which Emacs under X can intercept and decipher, allowing it to distinguish "Enter" from "Cntrl+Enter". A terminal, however, sends ASCII codes. Pressing the "control" key sets the control bit. "Enter", being a c

Re: Ctrl+Ret in Terminals

2009-07-16 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:27:12PM +0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:46:53PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > "Enter" ("carriage return") _is_ a control character. A pc keyboard sends > > keycodes which Emacs under X can intercept and decipher, allowing it to > > distinguish "E

Ctrl+Ret in Terminals

2009-07-16 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:46:53PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > "Enter" ("carriage return") _is_ a control character. A pc keyboard sends > keycodes which Emacs under X can intercept and decipher, allowing it to > distinguish "Enter" from "Cntrl+Enter". A terminal, however, sends ASCII > codes. P

Re: Ctrl+Ret in Terminals

2009-07-01 Thread John Hasler
David writes: > The clarification doesn't seem right to me. If, in my console > keymap file, I change > keycode 28 = Return Return Return Return Control_m Control_m ... ... ^ > to > keycode 28 = Return Return Return Return m Control_m ... ...

Re: Ctrl+Ret in Terminals

2009-07-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:51:36AM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > > One of my friends uses org-mode in GNU Emacs, and loves it. Now, the > > issue is that one of the functions in org-mode is bound (by default) > > to C-RET (Ctrl+Enter), which works fine on the X11 Emacs. > > I just tried this in G

Re: Ctrl+Ret in Terminals

2009-07-01 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > > This is a generic question, not Debian-specific. > > One of my friends uses org-mode in GNU Emacs, and loves it. Now, the > issue is that one of the functions in org-mode is bound (by default) > to C-RET (Ctrl+Enter), wh

Re: Ctrl+Ret in Terminals

2009-06-30 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:13:14PM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:46:53PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > "Enter" ("carriage return") _is_ a control character. A pc keyboard sends > > keycodes which Emacs under X can intercept and decipher, allowing it to > > distinguish "E

Re: Ctrl+Ret in Terminals

2009-06-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:46:53PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > "Enter" ("carriage return") _is_ a control character. A pc keyboard sends > keycodes which Emacs under X can intercept and decipher, allowing it to > distinguish "Enter" from "Cntrl+Enter". A terminal, however, sends ASCII > codes. P

Re: Ctrl+Ret in Terminals

2009-06-30 Thread John Hasler
"Enter" ("carriage return") _is_ a control character. A pc keyboard sends keycodes which Emacs under X can intercept and decipher, allowing it to distinguish "Enter" from "Cntrl+Enter". A terminal, however, sends ASCII codes. Pressing the "control" key sets the control bit. "Enter", being a con

Ctrl+Ret in Terminals

2009-06-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian Users, This is a generic question, not Debian-specific. One of my friends uses org-mode in GNU Emacs, and loves it. Now, the issue is that one of the functions in org-mode is bound (by default) to C-RET (Ctrl+Enter), which works fine on the X11 Emacs. However, none of the terminals

Re: screen multidisplay with terminals resized

2009-03-21 Thread green
green wrote at 2009-03-07 13:36 -0700: > Kelly Clowers wrote at 2009-02-28_09:19 -0700: > > As for the actual problem of resized terms (especially within screen), > > I unfortunately don't know of a good solution. You could try on the > > awesome mailing list or IRC. > > Yeah, I will have to try t

Re: screen multidisplay with terminals resized

2009-03-07 Thread green
Kelly Clowers wrote at 2009-02-28_09:19 -0700: > As for the actual problem of resized terms (especially within screen), > I unfortunately don't know of a good solution. You could try on the > awesome mailing list or IRC. Yeah, I will have to try the awesome mailing list and perhaps the screen list

Re: screen multidisplay with terminals resized

2009-03-01 Thread Michael M. Moore
Kelly Clowers wrote: I disagree. Sure, some people use a tabbed term with awesome, but I use urxvt, and based on the mailing list and IRC I feel like most users use xterm or (u)rxvt. FYI, in case you were not aware of this, urxvt can also be a tabbed terminal. There's a perl extension that e

Re: screen multidisplay with terminals resized

2009-02-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
> >> of those really useful utilities that just sticks. > >> > >> Also, I recently started using the awesome wm which is worth checking out > >> if > >> you like to increase your productivity elegantly (yeah, elegantly). > >> > >> So in t

Re: screen multidisplay with terminals resized

2009-02-28 Thread Kelly Clowers
lso, I recently started using the awesome wm which is worth checking out if >> you like to increase your productivity elegantly (yeah, elegantly). >> >> So in the past I have often had multiple terminals running on multiple >> workspaces (using the openbox wm) all connected to a

Re: screen multidisplay with terminals resized

2009-02-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
> you like to increase your productivity elegantly (yeah, elegantly). > > So in the past I have often had multiple terminals running on multiple > workspaces (using the openbox wm) all connected to a single screen session. > This worked fine. > > But now with awesome, I alwa

screen multidisplay with terminals resized

2009-02-27 Thread green
have often had multiple terminals running on multiple workspaces (using the openbox wm) all connected to a single screen session. This worked fine. But now with awesome, I always have exactly 2 terminals (ROXTerm) running screen, no more or less. I don't want fewer and don't need more

Re: alt key is not working in terminals

2009-01-09 Thread Pedro Insua
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 02:17:41PM -0600, lostson wrote: > > Hello I have recently updated my lenny system and now the Alt key > is not working in my terminals. I can get it to work in Xterm using > the > > XTerm*eightBitInput: false > > I have noticed this mrxt a

alt key is not working in terminals

2009-01-08 Thread lostson
Hello I have recently updated my lenny system and now the Alt key is not working in my terminals. I can get it to work in Xterm using the XTerm*eightBitInput: false I have noticed this mrxt and Xterm Unicode as well this seems to be system wide where would I look to repair this. It must

terminals with tabs very slow to resize in compiz

2007-11-07 Thread Micha Feigin
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Re: Pseudo terminals missing

2007-07-16 Thread Ralph Katz
Original Message Subject:Re: Pseudo terminals missing Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:07:03 -0500 From: Saul Mena Avila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, Ralph. You were right. I don't have installed util-linux but I can&#

Re: Pseudo terminals missing

2007-07-15 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/15/2007 01:13 AM, Saul Mena Avila wrote: > Hello, Douglas. I ran "ps -C getty" but there weren't processes listed. > Also, I run a "locate getty" and "which getty" (as root and user as > well) but there weren't results either... although, the comands for the > stty's are present in /etc/initt

Re: Pseudo terminals missing

2007-07-14 Thread Saul Mena Avila
Hello, Douglas. I ran "ps -C getty" but there weren't processes listed. Also, I run a "locate getty" and "which getty" (as root and user as well) but there weren't results either... although, the comands for the stty's are present in /etc/inittab as you mentioned. Some time ago I tweaked the packa

Re: Pseudo terminals missing

2007-07-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 01:04:37PM -0500, Saul Mena Avila wrote: > Hi. I've been running Debian etch for 1 month or so and I noticed yesterday > that when pressing CTRL + ALT + F1-F6, there aren't the usual > psuedoterminals. > I don't get error messages but Is this normal? No. If you look near t

Re: Pseudo terminals missing

2007-07-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 14 2007 11:04, Saul Mena Avila wrote: > Hi. I've been running Debian etch for 1 month or so and I noticed yesterday > that when pressing CTRL + ALT + F1-F6, there aren't the usual > psuedoterminals. > I don't get error messages but Is this normal? No, those

Pseudo terminals missing

2007-07-14 Thread Saul Mena Avila
Hi. I've been running Debian etch for 1 month or so and I noticed yesterday that when pressing CTRL + ALT + F1-F6, there aren't the usual psuedoterminals. I don't get error messages but Is this normal? Thanks. -saul

Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 21:09:16 -0700, Pat Primate wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote earlier: [...] > > It looks like your X setup is OK as far as the graphics card is > > concerned (see my remarks below). Maybe the problem is in some weird way > > related to the pcspkr module which controls the sys

Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-15 Thread patprimate
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Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
) and the crash doesn't > happen in the tty1 terminals, Only inside KDE/X11. I checked the bell > settings in Konsole (settings ---> bell) and it was set to System bell > and not visual bell, BUT (the good news) I tried setting the bell > settings to 'system notification

Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-13 Thread patprimate
Thank you Florian and Kamaraju, I am impressed by the speed and helpfulness of the Debian-Users mailing list :) As for my system, I am completely up to date (clean install of 4.0r0) and the crash doesn't happen in the tty1 terminals, Only inside KDE/X11. I checked the bell settings in Ko

Subject: Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-12 Thread Patrick Primate
Ooops, sorry everyone, I accidently forgot to put the subject in my previous post. So if Florian or Kamaraju did not read my 'no subject' post (sent 2 minutes ago) please do so, I have responses to your questions :) Thanx pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:39:20 -0700, Pat Primate wrote: > I have an LG LW40-S3MU1 laptop and I'm new to Debian and I would love to > give her a good run, but I have run into a persistant problem. With a fresh > install (all software is original Etch 4.0r0 versions) if I open up a > virtua

Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-12 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Pat Primate wrote: > I have an LG LW40-S3MU1 laptop and I'm new to Debian and I would love to > give her a good run, but I have run into a persistant problem. With a > fresh install (all software is original Etch 4.0r0 versions) if I open > up a virtual terminal / terminal emulator (like konsole)

Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-12 Thread Pat Primate
I have an LG LW40-S3MU1 laptop and I'm new to Debian and I would love to give her a good run, but I have run into a persistant problem. With a fresh install (all software is original Etch 4.0r0 versions) if I open up a virtual terminal / terminal emulator (like konsole) and press one of the arr

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:05:36PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: > > I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > > i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 > > (e.g. CT

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-19 Thread Steve Kleene
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: > I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 > (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens. On Thu Jan 18 14:05:12 2007, Kevin R

Re: Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-18 Thread Kevin Ross
> On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: > >> I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > >> i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 > >> (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens. > &g

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: >> I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- >> i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 >> (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens. On Mon Jan 15 15:13:59 200

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
I set to bring up a console instead of > gnome. This works, but I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 > (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens. when i boot, the screen flickers when it is spawning the getty's. does your screen flicker when the boot message says it

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