Questions tagged [xterm]
xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System.
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Setting my preferred font in Suckless's ST terminal emulator
I really like the default font used by xterm.
By running xterm -report-fonts, I glean that this font is -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 written in the old XLFD ...
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Moving word forward and word backward in zsh on uxterm on a PC
It has long been known that in certain editors and shells on a PC, to go one word forward, you hit Alt+f or Ctrl+→, and to go one word backward, you hit Alt+b or Ctrl+←. In zsh in uxterm on Gnome+...
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rxvt-unicode and xterm different yellow colors in journalctl
Recently, I noticed something strange. If I run the command sudo journalctl -f -u ModemManager in rxvt-unicode (left) and xterm (right), in rxvt-unicode the yellow does not appear when the message is ...
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How do I remove white border of XTerm window?
Couldn't find any answers to this.
XTerm*internalBorder actually is a padding between the black border and terminal contents;
XTerm*borderWidth is the black border.
Couldn't find a resource for the ...
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Vim over SSH problem when connecting from a RHEL 8 to a remote macOS Sonoma
When I connect to a remote macOS Sonoma from a Linux RHEL 8 with ssh -J user@portal user@mac and, once connected, I run vim somefile, I get some extraneous characters at the top-left of the "page&...
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Does this exist: xterm bash in frame window custom? [closed]
Is there a style to [xterm + bash scripts, commands] inside a custom frame?
i will wish this style, see example:
╭─────────────────────────┤text title1├────────────────────────╮
│ ...
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Is it possible to instruct XTerm to use two specific weights for the regular font and the bold faces?
Yellow XTerm from xterm -fa 'Cascadia SemiBold'
Pink XTerm from xterm -fa Cascadia
As you can see, when I use Cascadia SemiBold the text is slightly heavier but the headers are rendered with the same ...
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plymouth + xterm + sudo: not work...why?
i create file sh, i click file sh will start to executive. but Xterm not work to run plymouthd... instead kdesu is worked to run plymouthd..but i want to use xterm.. maybe i missing something ...
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Where are default fonts located
I am running Xterm and need to find the directory of the default bitmap font (misc-fixed). I have looked everywhere but still can't find it. Any ideas?
Here's my output when I run xterm -report-fonts:
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I have a problem with windows xterm in airgeddon
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Linux 2024.3
This problem appeared with me after updating Kali Linux windows xterm It became small and I had to enlarge it manually. When I search for networks or attack the evil twin, the ...
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Is it still unsafe to cat an arbitrary file?
I read this post today and the answers claimed that certain escape sequences could be dangerous in some terminals, this post also has people saying that it can even be unsafe to simply view log files. ...
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-fa 'Cascadia Code' → "xterm: no absolute path found for shell"
I have recently installed Cascadia Code (because I love its "4") and I can use it in XTerm
$ xrdb -merge
XTerm*faceName: Cascadia Code
^D
$
but, otoh, if I try using the command line
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xterm seems to change its "home" key behaviour for emacs
In xterm, when I press the HOME key on my keyboard, it normally sends ^[[H but when I open emacs -nw, it changes to ^[OH; those are home and khome respectively. I figured out while trying to build my ...
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.Xdefaults: How to Target Firefox Only
Trying to modify the .Xdefaults maximumMaximumSize and limitResize properties only for Firefox applications. Is there a way to target Firefox applications when writing to Xdefaults while not affecting ...
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TERM ANSI escape sequences compatibility between xterm and screen although infocmp does not say so
I am making an script in zsh on mac that uses tmux and after the amazing https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22565/st%c3%a9phane-chazelas answer, I found out that when I use tmux, it uses a different ...
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