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xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System.

In computing, xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. A user can have many different invocations of xterm running at once on the same display, each of which provides independent input/output for the process running in it (normally the process is a Unix shell).

xterm originated prior to the X Window System. It was originally written as a stand-alone terminal emulator for the VAXStation 100 (VS100) by Mark Vandevoorde, a student of Jim Gettys, in the summer of 1984, when work on X started. It rapidly became clear that it would be more useful as part of X than as a standalone program, so it was retargeted to X. As Gettys tells the story, "part of why xterm's internals are so horrifying is that it was originally intended that a single process be able to drive multiple VS100 displays."

After many years as part of the X reference implementation, around 1996 the main line of development then shifted to XFree86 (which itself forked from X11R6.3), and it is presently actively maintained by Thomas Dickey.

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How can I find documentation/knowledge/mentorship/ancient tomes for terminal definitions? (getting vim terminal title setting to work with tmux)

I have scoured the internet for an explanation, but the cryptic terseness of t_ts and t_fs makes it impossible to find helpful information about how I can expect systems to work. Here is an overview of my existing knowledge, and I'd love it if…
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Does startx need xterm installed

Im linking to a remote linux machine. I want to be able to view the files/ directories on this machine using a GUI. I run xming and ssh and putty.I then stried to start the windows manager. THe output is below. What is happening…
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How to identify the Terminal Emulator being used?

I'm developing a library that needs to identify the running terminal emulator in order to output emulator-specific escape code sequences. For example, iTerm 2 uses the following proprietary sequence: ESC ] 50 ; CurrentDir=/path/to/dir BEL While…
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ncurses detect when mouse leaves window

When I research mouse interfacing with ncurses, I see many options, but I do not see any way to detect when the mouse has left the program window. The window is the window of the terminal emulator, not an ncurses window.
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How Do I Make Backspace Send ^H In Vim?

I have a problem that is my backspace works in the terminal but not in Vim. It sent '^?' instead of '^H' and I have been trying to figure it out. I have checked my .bashrc and there is stty erase '^?' to remove the '^?' but somehow it is not…
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Redirect output of Xterm to log file

I have not been able to find an answer to this problem. I have three programs kicked off in xterm for a demonstration automation script. I need to log the results of the xterm windows. Right now, my script looks as follows: #!/bin/bash/sh echo…
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How to open terminal window for debug output in Linux?

I am porting some app from Windows to Linux. By default is has no window, but could open one for debug output. I need to do something similar on Linux. I found that XTerm could be used from it, however without any details how to do this. This new…
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Embed a konsole or gnome-terminal inside a Tkinter Frame

I am able to embed a xterm into a Tkinter GUI Frame: Frame2 = Frame(master) Frame2.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=YES) wid = Frame2.winfo_id() os.system('xterm -into %d -hold -geometry 300x10 -sb &' % wid) But this doesn't work: Frame2 =…
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How to use GNOME Terminal instead of XTerm here?

I have the following variable defined in ~/.vimrc. This works well with XTerm but I can't get it working with GNOME Terminal. Please help. let g:slimv_client = 'python /home/dumrat/.vim/ftplugin/slimv.py -r "xterm -e sbcl --core…
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Automating xterm using Expect

I am trying to automate xterm window using Expect (though I already knew Expect cant control such GUI applications, but there is a tweaked mechanism explained in Exploring Expect) package require Expect spawn -pty stty raw -echo <…
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Mobaxterm, "Execute Command" Configuration

I have a to ask about Mobaxterm, I see that I can configure to my sessions, commands in the field execute command on the settings, but I can't send an enter. I need to execute commands like a cd, or an sh, and also send an enter, but the system…
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Mac Terminal "reset"command

** How to use command reset -w to get a new resized window? ** sheng:~ Mck$ reset -h reset: illegal option -- h Usage: tset [options] [terminal] Options: -c set control characters -e ch erase character -I no initialization…
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Open Multiple XTerm Windows Simultaniously

I am working on a Raspberry Pi powered Magic Mirror project and to start the program I execute a shell script that runs in the background continuously. To make the AI part of my project work I need to open a second shell script in the background…
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Bash script to automate a VPN from vpnbook.com

I wrote a bash script that reads a username and password from www.vpnbook.com/freevpn and then cleverly automates the vpn. Following is a code segment. I want the Stack Community to hide my xterm -e -hold ./Overflow.sh I have tried nohup and…
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An xterm-compatible TTY color query command?

Here is some shell code extracted from https://github.com/rocky/bash-term-background to get terminal background colors. I'd like to mimic this behavior in Python so it can retrieve the values too: stty -echo # Issue command to get both foreground…
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