On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 07:30:55AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 08:58:02PM -0700, John Conover wrote:
> >
> > Is Debian XTERN still available?
>
> I nearly mis-read that as "xterm". What is "XTERN"?
>
The subject line has
On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 02:57:07AM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote:
> >> In a previous message, John Conover implied:
>
> J> Does Debian come with Xterm?
>
>If it doesn't, building from source is easy.
It sure does: likewise named package (i.e. "xterm"
On 06.09.2025 06:20 Uhr John Conover wrote:
> Is Debian XTERN still available?
Debian ships xterm in its repository.
I do not know about a plan to remove it.
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>> In a previous message, John Conover implied:
J> Does Debian come with Xterm?
If it doesn't, building from source is easy.
curl https://invisible-island.net/archives/xterm/xterm-401.tgz
curl https://invisible-island.net/archives/xterm/xterm-401.tgz.asc
gpg --ve
On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 10:45:44PM -0700, John Conover wrote:
> Sorry about that. I meant Xterm
>
> John
>
And I would like to get an additional Sorry for not replying in thread.
(for starting a new mail thread)
It is the "You all known what my previous email wa
On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 08:58:02PM -0700, John Conover wrote:
>
> Is Debian XTERN still available?
I nearly mis-read that as "xterm". What is "XTERN"?
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Sorry about that. I meant Xterm
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Is Debian XTERN still available?
Thanks,
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM Mike McClain wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 11:28:08PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Sorry I wasn't clear, I'll try again.
> I've defined to9 () { echo "$1" > /dev/tty9 } to be used from an xterm.
> I'd like to
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 04:23:36PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> So this was a XY problem.
If you say so but I don't see it that way.
> Do not try to guess which terminal is running ???only bash???, have the
I wasn't trying to guess and you gave me the answer, Thank You.
>
Greg Wooledge (HE12025-08-11):
> I still think that having both /dev/tty9 and "this one xterm" both
> connected to the same tmux/screen session is going to be the best
> long-term solution to *whatever* the actual workflow issue is.
That might work depending on the use case, o
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 10:31:38 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> Recipe:
>
> 1) Install screen.
> 2) On /dev/tty9, run "screen -S shared" to create a named session.
> 3) In X, open an xterm (ideally with the same dimensions as the VT).
>
notifications demon (e.g. xfce4-notifyd)
> - write to a file you control, and run tail -f filename in
> your selected xterm
I still think that having both /dev/tty9 and "this one xterm" both
connected to the same tmux/screen session is going to be the best
long-term solution to
> ps ax | grep [b]ash | grep -o 'pts...'
… will not tell us what terminal is running *only* bash.
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Mike McClain writes:
> If I can learn how to determine which /dev/pts/? is running only bash
> and not mc or something else then I can write toX() to just work.
ps ax | grep [b]ash | grep -o 'pts...'
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it appear on the other terminal?
>
> Sorry I wasn't clear, I'll try again.
> I've defined to9 () { echo "$1" > /dev/tty9 } to be used from an xterm.
> I'd like to have a similar function toX() to be used on a virtual
> terminal that would print some
Mike McClain (HE12025-08-11):
> I've defined to9 () { echo "$1" > /dev/tty9 } to be used from an xterm.
> I'd like to have a similar function toX() to be used on a virtual
> terminal that would print some text on the xterm running only bash
> but that xterm vari
wasn't clear, I'll try again.
I've defined to9 () { echo "$1" > /dev/tty9 } to be used from an xterm.
I'd like to have a similar function toX() to be used on a virtual
terminal that would print some text on the xterm running only bash
but that xterm varies which /dev
On Sun 10 Aug 2025 at 21:58:32 (-0500), Mike McClain wrote:
> Most of my Linux use is on the commandline.
> When I launch X I always start an xterm, one running mc and firefox.
> >From X I have a tiny script 'to9' that copies my entry to /dev/tty9.
> Going the other way fr
On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 21:58:32 -0500, Mike McClain wrote:
> Most of my Linux use is on the commandline.
> When I launch X I always start an xterm, one running mc and firefox.
> >From X I have a tiny script 'to9' that copies my entry to /dev/tty9.
> Going the other way fr
Most of my Linux use is on the commandline.
When I launch X I always start an xterm, one running mc and firefox.
>From X I have a tiny script 'to9' that copies my entry to /dev/tty9.
Going the other way from the CLI to X I have to go to X and see which
/dev/pts/* is just running bash
pboard)
Tells xterm whether to use the PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD for SELECT
tokens in the selection mechanism. The set-select action can
change this at runtime, allowing the user to work with programs
that handle only one of these mechanisms. The default is
“false”, which te
someone else knows, or maybe you can find some modern-day documentation
> about it on the Internet.
>
>> This works on a Dell Vostro laptop.
>>
>> Highlight the text in xterm with the left of the touchpad.
>> Cursor in highlighted text, press bottom middle of touchpad.
on middle click
considering it insecure. Perhaps there are still wayland implementations
supporting only clipboard.
In xterm you may configure shortcuts for both primary selection and
clipboard copy and paste. Search for copy-selection and insert-selection
in xterm(1). It was discussed in the
Excúseme i don’t know the xterm behavior..
El El jue, 13 jun 2024 a las 13:28, Greg Wooledge
escribió:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad of
> > laptop. As it worked years ago.
&g
On Thursday, 13 June 2024 07:27:47 -04 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad
> > of laptop. As it worked years ago.
>
> Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the
a Dell Vostro laptop.
>
> Highlight the text in xterm with the left of the touchpad.
> Cursor in highlighted text, press bottom middle of touchpad.
>
> This alters the block highlight. By pressing the middle of the
> bottom of the touchpad: highlights only the lines in xterm.
>
at 12:16:00PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
>> > Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm
>> > by Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl + C So don't know how to copy from
>> > xterm
>>
>> xterm is a terminal emulator. Pressing Ctrl-C in a termina
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:56:34 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> > Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm
> > by Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl + C So don't know how to copy from
> > xter
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:16:00 +1000
Charlie wrote:
> I[s] there is a
> way to do it at all?
Yes. Use Mouse-1 (typically the left-hand mouse button) to swipe the
text you want to copy from the xterm. Go to the recipient program, and
use Mouse-2 (typically the middle button on the mouse) to
I believe you can to change the options of xterm editor and set up others..
El El jue, 13 jun 2024 a las 4:56, Greg Wooledge
escribió:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> > Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm by
> > Ct
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm by
> Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl + C So don't know how to copy from xterm
xterm is a terminal emulator. Pressing Ctrl-C in a terminal emulator
simply passes a
Using Debian bookworm updated and upgraded.
Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm by
Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl + C So don't know how to copy from xterm
Unable to paste from xterm into a text editor using Ctrl + V or Shift
+ Ctrl + V
After a few year
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 Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 01:20:19PM +0100, 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
> m
minals use
[Ctrl+Shift+c] and [Ctrl+Shift+v] instead of conventional [Ctrl+c] and
[Ctrl+v]. That is why I am against idea of adding [Ctrl+Insert] to xterm
bindings.
In Emacs C- is bound to `kill-ring-save'.
Works for me. The author of XTerm is quite reactive if you can explain
the issue cl
> 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
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.
> Thanks, it seems, it works in bookworm. Several years ago xterm did not
> support ownership of independent CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY simultaneously. It
>
nput --clipboard'", PRIMARY)\n\
copy-selection(CLIPBOARD)
… is simpler.
Thanks, it seems, it works in bookworm. Several years ago xterm did not
support ownership of independent CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY simultaneously.
It was a workaround for the following scenario:
-
On Sun 31 Dec 2023 at 00:43:40 (-0600), Mike McClain wrote:
> I
> suspect logging into a system where you have no home for your primary
> user might get interesting.
That problem is simple to resolve. I have encrypted /home partitions
on all my systems, but the root filesystem has a /home/primaryU
I shouldn't be surprised if xterm-256color is just enough
different from xterm and lxterminal that that is why you don't see a
problem with the '"...": ...' syntax. If you have xterm-256color you
likely have xterm too. Have you tried it?
Thanks for showing me different way
On 30/12/2023 09:14, Mike McClain wrote:
Since some of these use a
spinoff of xterm [ -n $DISPLAY ] is a little more generic than
[ $TERM == xterm ], RaspberryPI has chosen lxterminal as their default
which would would fail that test but still runs bash.
I would expect that the reason of
On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 08:14:37PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote:
> As it turns out every line in /mc/bin/xterm_bindings that
> was not a comment was problematic.From man readline or info readline
> I saw this: bind '"\C-x\C-r": re-read-init-file' and that is the syntax
> I used in xterm_bindings,
ered what /mc/implied, my name is McClain so /mc is where my
stuff goes to separate it from system stuff making it easier to move
my stuff from distribution to distribution. I started with DosLinux
back around 1997-8 and have used redhat, slakware, solaris, freebsd
and settled on Debian early t
so detrimental side effect.
>
> https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20110218064727.GA6305@playground
> Re: xterm question [SOLVED] Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:47:27 -0800
That message is over 12 years old. It's quite likely some changes have
been made since then.
I'd also be cur
indings;
I do not see anything that may cause the issue with single quote in the
following message. I am curious what was the goal of the particular
binding that had so detrimental side effect.
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20110218064727.GA6305@playground
Re: xterm question [SOLVED] Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:47:27 -0800
You guys were rigt all along, I just couldn't see it.
Greg's suggestion to try dash showed me the error of my ways.
I moved .inputrc to no.inputrc, commented out the line in
bash.environment that pulled in xterm_bindings, killed and restarted X
and sure enough I had '"' in an lxterminal window.
I m
On 25/12/2023 12:31, Mike McClain wrote:
In lxterminal control v displays "'" though lxterminal doesn't.
Do xterm and lxterminal behave in a similar way? Is there something
related to xterm *VT100*translations in the output of
xrdb -query -
I am unsure if there a
On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 12:35:37PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote:
> root@RPI4b3:~> tty; echo $SHELL; echo "' " | hd
For the record, $SHELL does not tell you what shell you're currently in.
It tells you which login shell your account uses, or which shell
you'd *like* to
root@RPI4b3:~> tty; echo $SHELL; echo "' " | hd
/dev/tty1
/bin/bash
27 20 0a |' .|
0003
mike@RPI4b3:~> tty; echo $SHELL; echo "' " | hd
/dev/tty6
/bin/bash
27 20 0a |' .|
0003
mike@RPI4b3
On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 11:31:09PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote:
> I've examined /etc/inputrc, .inputrc, /etc/bash.bashrc, ~/.bashrc,
> /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d/*, ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile,
OK, you've examined them... and... what did you *see* in them?
When did this problem start to happen, a
This is reported by "xev" in response to the "'" key:
KeyPress event, serial 48, synthetic NO, window 0x1e1,
root 0x3af, subw 0x0, time 1860575, (170,-87), root:(1005,201),
state 0x10, keycode 48 (keysym 0x27, apostrophe), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (27) "'"
X
On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 09:06:47PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 09:01:09AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > On 24/12/2023 07:32, Mike McClain wrote:
> > > when I
> > > type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows.
On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 09:01:09AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 24/12/2023 07:32, Mike McClain wrote:
> > when I
> > type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows.
>
> May it happen that you have dead keys in your keyboard configuration
On 24/12/2023 07:32, Mike McClain wrote:
when I
type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows.
May it happen that you have dead keys in your keyboard configuration to
type characters with accents? I have never used this feature, so my
guess may be wrong.
On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 06:32:35PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote:
> I seldom use the command line while on the desk top since I keep 10
> VTs open for day to day tasks so only recently noticed that when I
> type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows
I seldom use the command line while on the desk top since I keep 10
VTs open for day to day tasks so only recently noticed that when I
type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows. If
I open a file for editing with jed, my favorite editor, I can type a
s
On 10/15/23 04:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 03:34:52AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
[...]
I can beat that Tomas. At one point in the early 90's we had a PDP-11 to run
a 7 meter C band dish, The VT 220 died and DEC wanted nearly 2G for a VT-550
This one keeps tripping me
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 03:34:52AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
[...]
> I can beat that Tomas. At one point in the early 90's we had a PDP-11 to run
> a 7 meter C band dish, The VT 220 died and DEC wanted nearly 2G for a VT-550
This one keeps tripping me up: the "G" in your "2G" means "grand", yes
On 10/15/23 02:06, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 09:52:16AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
[...]
P.S. I believed that most confusing (while still useful) feature of
terminals is [Ctrl+s]. It takes some time to realize that it has been hit by
mistake, so [Ctrl+q] is required to res
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 09:52:16AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
[...]
> P.S. I believed that most confusing (while still useful) feature of
> terminals is [Ctrl+s]. It takes some time to realize that it has been hit by
> mistake, so [Ctrl+q] is required to resume output.
Old age gotta have some adv
On 15/10/2023 02:10, Van Snyder wrote:
The culprit is tcsh, not XTerm. With bash, Alt-Shift-P produces a colon.
In tcsh the default bindings are almost the same as in bash:
https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/tcsh/tcsh.1.en.html#history-search-backward
history-search-backward (M-p, M-P
The culprit is tcsh, not XTerm. With bash, Alt-Shift-P produces a
colon.
I added this to my .XDefaults
xterm*altIsNotMeta: truexterm*altSendsEscape: true
so that Alt-Shift-P becomes ESC-P. The problem now does not occur in
tcsh.
Thanks to the correspondents on the list.
On Sat, 2023-10-14 at 15:49
On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 08:38:22AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 07:07:57AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 01:06:20PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> > > I haven't figured out how to unlock the XTerm after accidentally givi
On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 07:07:57AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 01:06:20PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> > I haven't figured out how to unlock the XTerm after accidentally giving
> > it Alt-Shift-P.
I'm not seeing whatever it is you're se
On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 01:06:20PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 12:38 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> > I have set up Alt-Shift-P as a macro in my editor (nedit) to run
> > pdflatex.
> > If I accidentally do it when XTerm has keyboard focus, it locks up
> &g
On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 12:38 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> I have set up Alt-Shift-P as a macro in my editor (nedit) to run
> pdflatex.
> If I accidentally do it when XTerm has keyboard focus, it locks up
> and the only thing I can do is kill it and restart.
> How can I unlock XTerm a
I have set up Alt-Shift-P as a macro in my editor (nedit) to run
pdflatex.
If I accidentally do it when XTerm has keyboard focus, it locks up and
the only thing I can do is kill it and restart.
How can I unlock XTerm after doing this?
There are no Alt-Shift sequences listed at
https
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
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 ~/.Xresources, e.g.
xterm*VT100.faceName: ...
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote:
i installed debian sid on userland app.
i have 2 terminals. xterm & uxterm. i have
installed openbox, jre, mc & palemoon.
i have 2 issues & both of are interrelated:
(1) when i start my vnc session, it
starts xterm terminal automatically
i installed debian sid on userland app.
i have 2 terminals. xterm & uxterm. i have
installed openbox, jre, mc & palemoon.
i have 2 issues & both of are interrelated:
(1) when i start my vnc session, it
starts xterm terminal automatically.
which file should i edit to start uxterm?
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
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&am
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
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 f
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,
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
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, w
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
&g
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+de
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 ter
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