Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-26 5:55 p.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: Actually apparently putty does support remote resizing. It just seems that our systems lack the right termcap entries. I managed to resize the putty window by running the command: resize -s height widt

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-26 1:45 p.m., Tim Woodall wrote: I have to use PuTTY to connect to a debian server. For reasons that are outwith my control the ssh session disconnects every 24 hrs. Therefore I run screen so after reconnecting I can recover to whereever

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 5:55 p.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: Actually apparently putty does support remote resizing. It just seems that our systems lack the right termcap entries. I managed to resize the putty window by running the command: resize -s height width so: resize -s 24 80 Also adding this: term

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 5:42 p.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote: As far as I know this is not a screen feature. Putty controls the window size, it is determined by the default or whatever is saved for that session. You can change what happens when you resize the putty window on the machine running putty. There

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 1:45 p.m., Tim Woodall wrote: I have to use PuTTY to connect to a debian server. For reasons that are outwith my control the ssh session disconnects every 24 hrs. Therefore I run screen so after reconnecting I can recover to whereever I was at. However, the PuTTY window does no

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 26 ian 22, 18:45:41, Tim Woodall wrote: > I have to use PuTTY to connect to a debian server. For reasons that are > outwith my control the ssh session disconnects every 24 hrs. > > Therefore I run screen so after reconnecting I can recover to whereever > I was at. > > However, the PuTTY wi

gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Tim Woodall
I have to use PuTTY to connect to a debian server. For reasons that are outwith my control the ssh session disconnects every 24 hrs. Therefore I run screen so after reconnecting I can recover to whereever I was at. However, the PuTTY window does not resize to whatever it was previously. I can fi

Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

2021-10-21 Thread Jeff
Hi Thomas, On 19/10/2021 22:31, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Seems to be considered a firmware bug of the keyboard which might become repairable in the future: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=267365 Oh, yes. Even better. Worked a treat. Thanks again Jeff OpenPGP_signature Descripti

Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

2021-10-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jeff wrote: > KeyPress event, [...] > keycode 248 Seems to be considered a firmware bug of the keyboard which might become repairable in the future: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=267365 > https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=105326 Such old wisdom will probably

Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

2021-10-19 Thread Jeff
the terminal window or in file /tmp/xev.log . Yup: KeyPress event, serial 68, synthetic NO, window 0x661, root 0x238, subw 0x0, time 3095352, (168,-22), root:(1030,437), state 0x110, keycode 248 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes

Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

2021-10-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, due to the lack of other proposals i now come up with something ancient. If you are still running the X Window System, then there should be a program named xev. Start it in a dedicated terminal window which will get its verbous text output. Redirect a copy of that output to a file: xev

Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

2021-10-15 Thread Jeff
Hallo! I picked up a second-hand Cherry MX 3 keyboard some time ago. The feel is very good, but when it is plugged in, I can no longer scroll the active terminal window, and the screensaver no longer activates. I can scroll inactive terminal windows, and everything returns to normal if I

Re: Terminal window shrinks into title bar.....

2020-11-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 07:46:37AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > So, if you comment out the "Mouse 4" and "Mouse 5" lines there (and > restart fvwm), I bet that would disable the WindowShade binding to > the scroll wheel. You could still activate or deactivate it through > the menus, assuming you

Re: Terminal window shrinks into title bar.....

2020-11-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:31:22PM +1100, David wrote: > I did a quick search for a fvwm manpage and found: > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/fvwm/fvwm.1.en.html > """ > WindowShade [bool] > Toggles the window shade feature for titled windows. > Windows in the shaded state only display a t

Re: Terminal window shrinks into title bar.....

2020-11-10 Thread David
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 18:21, Charlie wrote: > FVWM window manager On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 22:55, Carl Fink wrote: > On 11/10/20 1:58 AM, Charlie wrote: > > Sometimes I press some key combination by accident and the terminal > > window shrinks back into the title bar

Re: Terminal window shrinks into title bar.....

2020-11-10 Thread Carl Fink
On 11/10/20 1:58 AM, Charlie wrote: Sometimes I press some key combination by accident and the terminal window shrinks back into the title bar. I must have the terminology wrong, because am unable to discover how to reverse this behaviour. no matter what wordage is used to google. If anyone

Re: Terminal window shrinks into title bar.....

2020-11-09 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 10/11/20 5:58 pm, Charlie wrote: From my keyboard: Debian Bulleye 5.8.0-2-amd64 FVWM window manager Sometimes I press some key combination by accident and the terminal window shrinks back into the title bar. I must have the terminology wrong, because am unable to

Terminal window shrinks into title bar.....

2020-11-09 Thread Charlie
From my keyboard: Debian Bulleye 5.8.0-2-amd64 FVWM window manager Sometimes I press some key combination by accident and the terminal window shrinks back into the title bar. I must have the terminology wrong, because am unable to discover how to reverse this behaviour

Re: terminal window returns prompt (was: dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster)

2019-07-17 Thread John Crawley
On 2019-07-18 10:29, John Crawley wrote: Hi tomas and Thomas, thanks for your input. I think I have a basic idea of what exec does. However, try running in a terminal: echo $$ exec #Then, in the new terminal: echo $$ The two PIDs are different! (or were here) On 2019-07-17 17:37, Thomas Schmit

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-09-05 09:27:06 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > Psychological or not, it certainly works for me. By killing the job > number, it forces it to stop on my computer. Yes, on *your* computer. But for the OP, it appears that the process was not killable (yet), probably because it was in kernel

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Dutch Ingraham a écrit : > > SIGTERM (number 15) by default while Ctrl-C sends SIGINT (number 3) by > > default. But both have the same default action of interrupting the process. > The last sentence is inaccurate and imprecise. See man 7 signal, and esp. > unde

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:19:38 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: >Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Charlie Kravetz a écrit : >> I open a second terminal, then use ps -A to find the command. I can >> kill it with "sudo kill " which kills the job number. It is not >> always instant, but faster than ct

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 05:19:38PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Charlie Kravetz a écrit : > SIGTERM (number 15) by default while Ctrl-C sends SIGINT (number 3) by > default. But both have the same default action of interrupting the process. The last sentence is

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 20 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Charlie Kravetz a écrit : > I open a second terminal, then use ps -A to find the command. I can > kill it with "sudo kill " which kills the job number. It is not > always instant, but faster than ctrl-c for some things, including rsync > and cp . Not true. T

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:06:27 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: >On 9/5/2016 8:35 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:13:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Thank you. >>> Sometimes harware reset is the only thing. >>> The cp command was crudded up by human error ;/ >> >> Your

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/5/2016 8:35 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:13:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Thank you. Sometimes harware reset is the only thing. The cp command was crudded up by human error ;/ Your ^C would eventually be honoured by cp. The result will be an incomplete copy,

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:13:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Thank you. > Sometimes harware reset is the only thing. > The cp command was crudded up by human error ;/ Your ^C would eventually be honoured by cp. The result will be an incomplete copy, but the filesystem should be in a consisten

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/5/2016 7:28 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: I realized I had miss-specified options. As data was multiple GB and target was a USB connected flash drive I wished an immediate termination. Usually there is no clean way to do this, and you ha

Re: How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: > I realized I had miss-specified options. As data was multiple GB and target > was a USB connected flash drive I wished an immediate termination. Usually there is no clean way to do this, and you have to wait for the process to notice the signal, and abo

How to forcibly abort a command in a terminal window?

2016-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
The problem occurred when using cp to copy contents of one partition to another. I realized I had miss-specified options. As data was multiple GB and target was a USB connected flash drive I wished an immediate termination. Cntl-C had no apparent result. Closing terminal window apparently did

Re: Chrome grabs focus from terminal window

2013-12-19 Thread Joel Roth
Bob Proulx wrote: > Joel Roth wrote: > > I'm running sid with i3 as window manager. > > With Google chrome running, every few minutes, > > the focus jumps to chrome. > > Is it really chrome or really chromium? Got it! I was inadvertently activating the Windows-key semicolon combination which is

Re: Chrome grabs focus from terminal window

2013-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Joel Roth wrote: > I'm running sid with i3 as window manager. > With Google chrome running, every few minutes, > the focus jumps to chrome. Is it really chrome or really chromium? > Too bad, as chrome has been excellent in other ways. Are you running an extension that might be popping up a wind

Chrome grabs focus from terminal window

2013-12-19 Thread Joel Roth
Hi List, I'm running sid with i3 as window manager. With Google chrome running, every few minutes, the focus jumps to chrome. Too bad, as chrome has been excellent in other ways. Is that a bug or the future? -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-02-01 Thread Kenneth Karlsen
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:43:08PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: The mouse will make the window bigger, but it doesn't change the font size!! You could try to hold down shift and use the + and - on the numerical keypad to change the font and windowsize. It works for

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:05:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/30/2009 11:58 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was >> heard to say: >>> Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill >>> so errant process. It might sa

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/30/2009 11:58 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so errant process. It might save me a headache in the future! The difference between TERM and KILL, b

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: > Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so > errant process. It might save me a headache in the future! The difference between TERM and KILL, btw, is that TERM asks the program to shut dow

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:43:08PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > The mouse will make the window bigger, but it doesn't change the font > size!! > xterm has a neat feature. Ctrl-right lick of the mouse in an xterm will pop up a menu where you can choose the font size, etc. In case you need to make

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ken Irving wrote the following on 01/30/2009 01:30 PM: It might be useful to compare the terminal settings in the `bad' vs `good' cases, e.g., using stty -a > bad, etc.. You might be able to find something to tweak to fix that particular problem. Well behaved programs should return the termi

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:28:03AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2009 09:46 AM: >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was >> heard to say: >>> I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal

Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2009 09:46 AM: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next li

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: > I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window > doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on > the next line it just returns to the beginning of the cu

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window > doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on > the next line it just returns to the beginning of

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not r

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not result in a valid command line! Anybody have any ideas??

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn&#

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line fee

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns t

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it.

Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not result

Dead Terminal Window

2008-07-25 Thread Thomas H. George
I created a chroot etch with xorg, gdm and gnome as described in Debian Reference - Debian Tips sections 8.6.35.1 through 8.6.38.4. Everything I've tested seems to work except when I open a terminal window its dead and the xorg.conf I use with my wacom tablet works only with the stylus

Re: Re: Files used when a terminal window opens

2007-06-05 Thread Charles Blair
Thank you. The "bare cd" trick was what I needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Files used when a terminal window opens

2007-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Charles Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After logging in on a gnome window, I often go to "Accessories" > and "root terminal". I have several shell variable setting and > some other small tasks at the beginning. When I first set the > system up, I had a file that did these things for me. How

Files used when a terminal window opens

2007-06-03 Thread Charles Blair
After logging in on a gnome window, I often go to "Accessories" and "root terminal". I have several shell variable setting and some other small tasks at the beginning. When I first set the system up, I had a file that did these things for me. However, I want to change a few things and I've fo

Re: Scrollable Terminal Window

2004-06-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:47:38AM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote: > I am using WindowMaker with Debian (woody), and do not like the fact > that the > terminal windows are not scrollable. > > Could someone please recommend a terminal package that has this feature? rxvt, wterm and xterm can do it.

Re: Scrollable Terminal Window

2004-06-09 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Barry Skidmore_, on 06/09/04 09:47,typed: I am using WindowMaker with Debian (woody), and do not like the fact that the terminal windows are not scrollable. Could someone please recommend a terminal package that has this feature? Thanks, Barry How about a simple xterm and enabling

Re: Scrollable Terminal Window

2004-06-09 Thread Barry Skidmore
Thanks, I am not using kde, but installed konsole as a separate package. Barry On Wednesday 09 June 2004 08:55, William Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:47:38AM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote: > > I am using WindowMaker with Debian (woody), and do not like the fact that > > the terminal w

Re: Scrollable Terminal Window

2004-06-09 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:47:38AM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote: > I am using WindowMaker with Debian (woody), and do not like the fact that the > terminal windows are not scrollable. > > Could someone please recommend a terminal package that has this feature? Since you are using KMail, why not k

Scrollable Terminal Window

2004-06-09 Thread Barry Skidmore
I am using WindowMaker with Debian (woody), and do not like the fact that the terminal windows are not scrollable. Could someone please recommend a terminal package that has this feature? Thanks, Barry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Change size of terminal window?

2001-04-07 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:48:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:27:30PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen. > > > > I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installe

Re: Change size of terminal window?

2001-04-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:27:30PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen. > > I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new > VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up

Change size of terminal window?

2001-04-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen. I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up to a Mitsubishi TFT flatscreen monitor. I don't have X running, and I'm doing ev

Change size of terminal window?

2001-04-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen. I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up to a Mitsubishi TFT flatscreen monitor. I don't have X running, and I'm doing ev

Re: terminal window

1998-12-09 Thread Robert V. MacQuarrie
;> hello >> I need to open a terminal window for my dial-up ppp connection. I have >> to pass more than just the username/password. I used pppconfig, but it >> wasn't enough for the extras. How do I open a terminal window for >> dial-up connections? >> thanks I

Re: terminal window

1998-12-09 Thread shaul
1) I never used pppconfig but I think it strange that username/password is all it can handle. 2) Perhaps configure the chatscript by hand ? 3) xisp has the ability to open a terminal. But then again, I never needed this terminal. > hello > I need to open a terminal window for my dial-

terminal window

1998-12-07 Thread Mark Cantrell
hello I need to open a terminal window for my dial-up ppp connection. I have to pass more than just the username/password. I used pppconfig, but it wasn't enough for the extras. How do I open a terminal window for dial-up connections? thanks Mark -- "A man talking sense to himself is