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Questions tagged [xterm]

xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System.

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Access xterm's scrollback buffer as a file

Is it possible to, somehow, access xterm's scrollback buffer as a (read-only) file or a character device? The core issue (to avoid x/y "problemming"), is this: sometimes the command I've just executed creates non-deterministic output, and I'd like…
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Enable Ctrl+C for copy and Ctrl+Shift+C for interrupt

I would like to enable Ctrl+C for copy and Ctrl+Shift+C for SIGINT/interrupt in xterm. I have found the following. XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \ Shift CtrlV: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\ Shift CtrlV:…
William
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Is it possible to obtain the current name of the xterm window?

This LDP Howto demonstrates how to change the title of an xterm. I know that this is also possible using the xtitle command. Before invoking a long-running action, my script uses such techniques to change the title of its xterm window. I would like…
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How to prevent a specific instance of xterm from title changes?

If you start xterm from the command line giving it a title with the -T option xterm -T "my window title" the window title is likely to be overwritten via escape sequences for the shell prompt, other programs' output, etc. Is there any way to…
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Unable to configure font in XTerm

After a lot of mucking around Xterm, poring through reams of webpages I have thrown in the towel and realized that this isn't something I can figure out on my own. TrueType vs Bitmap Is the option xterm*font used to specify only bitmap fonts and is…
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Autoscroll when selecting text xterm scrollbar

So I do something like the following cat testfile Now text has spanned multiple lines. I could do PgUp+Shift to go up but how do I select such text while moving up? I have the scrollbar enabled like so. xterm -xrm 'xterm*ScrollBar:…
William
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How to search XTerm console history?

Is there some way to search XTerm's console history interactively, like Ctrl+Shift+f in GNOME Terminal and Terminator? I could run script in my .bashrc or possibly even patch XTerm, but it would be nice to know if there is already some shortcut or…
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Changing xterm font size without a mouse

It's possible to change the xterm font size by holding ctrl and right-clicking the window. Is it possible to do it without a mouse?
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xterm not loading config with -name

I have a xresources file to customise xterm and running xrdb -merge it loads in fine. Starting a new xterm with xterm, I can confirm it has been loaded in OK. However when I start a new xterm with xterm -name foobar it looses my config and goes back…
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Extra characters in XTerm printerCommand output

I've set up .Xresources to be able to print the terminal contents to a file when pressing Alt-P: XTerm*printAttributes: 2 XTerm*printerCommand: cat - > "`mktemp --tmpdir xterm-screenshot.bin.XXXXXXXXXX`" XTerm.VT100.translations: #override Meta…
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Unable to see the menu in xterm

Not sure what the deal is, but I can't see the menu in xterm when I Ctrl+Right Click or Ctrl+Left Click. My .Xresources file is pretty generic; nothing fancy, so I don't think that's the problem.
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XTerm not closing using -e option

I have an tcl script running in MWM and it starts xterm terminals with: .menu.utils.m add command -label {Xterm} -command { exec xterm -sb -T "Xterm" -sl 10000 -e su - int & } Doing this, the terminals can't be closed using Alt+F4 or the…
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Change the font used by XTerm for its menus

Here I am, using a 185 dpi display, and the font of XTerm menus¹ borders the unreadable small. Investigating XTerm's XResources, I found a promising name but $ xrdb -merge XTerm*SimpleMenu*menuLabel.font:…
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xterm does not support osc 52

I use xterm that comes with XQuartz on my macbook. However OSC 52 control sequence doesn't seem to work. Here's how to repro: open xterm in the shell, issue printf '\e]52;c;%s\007' $(printf 'test off' | base64) try to "paste" in somewhere else,…
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How to use xterm translations to use level3 shifted KP_Prior for scroll-back?

I am using LWIN key as level3 shift using level3(lwin_switch) symbol. On this level I am using 'i' and 'm' as KP_Prior and KP_Next, so LWIN+i will scroll page up and LWIN+m will scroll page down in Pale Moon. How to use the same key combination for…
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