Questions tagged [terminfo]
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List supported terminal types?
Is there a portable way to list supported terminal types on all NX systems?
If not, what's the best way to get this list on Solaris?
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How can one set a terminal's title with the 'tput' command?
I discovered through this answer that I've been setting terminal colours in my prompt in a naive way for years.
I've now modified my .bashrc to use 'tput' commands to colourise various elements of my prompt. The one remaining escape code I have is…
Murali Suriar
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Detect terminal type with tput
I would like to configure the terminal type by detecting it. For example when I am connecting to a Solaris box with PuTTY, the $TERM variable is set to vt100. I would like to negotiate this so, when the terminal emulator is PuTTY, to set $TERM to…
Mircea Vutcovici
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GNU screen cannot find terminfo entry on HP-UX
I am trying to make screen work on HP-UX B.11.23 U ia64 0308561483 unlimited-user license.
Please notice I do not have root access.
I have already compiled screen successfully, configured with LIBS=-lcurses.
When I try to start screen it…
Ency
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tput command + bold specific strings in file
please advice how to bold the "Date & Time" numbers from the following file with tput command ( I have Solaris machine)
for example I want to bold only the "24-09-2009 16:17:45" etc for all other date and time
the tput will write in my ksh script…
yael
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screen not setting $TERM to screen
I have a problem with gnu screen.
Computer 1:
open terminal
$ printenv TERM
xterm-color
$ screen
$ printenv TERM
screen
Computer 2:
open terminal
$ printenv TERM
xterm-color
$ screen
$ printenv TERM
xterm-color
Both computers are running Mac OS X…
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How to bind action to ctrl-f1 in screen?
I know I can do:
bindkey "...." action
where .... is what i get by typing ctrl-v and then ctrl-f1. but it looks bad, contains bad characters (^[), and is generally not cool.
when binding to f1, i can do:
bindkey -k k1 action
but I can't seem to…
user13185
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root$ tput sgr0 0 - unknown terminfo capability '0'
After upgrading from Fedora Core 36 to 37 I noticed that tput sgr0 0 has started reporting errors for root, but not for other users.
root$ tput -V
ncurses 6.2.20201017
root$ echo $TERM
xterm-256color
root$ tput sgr0 0
tput: unknown terminfo…
Ted Lyngmo
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