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

xterm question

2011-02-14 Thread Mike McClain
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 see anythin

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 donĀ“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:

Xterm question

2009-09-10 Thread Charles Kroeger
I have a lot of commands saved in Xterm. I know: #history -c to clear this, however it would be really good if these commands could be listed and selectively deleted. If such a thing can be done it would be good, and huge. With Debian I've come to realize that someone out there may already 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

Xterm question.....

2002-11-14 Thread Urban Gabor
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? BTW I would prefer a personal CC as well, my mail provider hangs sometime Gabaux Linux is like a wigwam: no gates, no windows, and an apache inside! -- To