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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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Vim - Force extra spacing between lines for underlining

While using Vim for most of my coding, I typically prefer to have the current line under-lined so it's easier to see where I am in my code. I avoid using things like line-highlighting because it usually makes things harder to see with my…
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xterm python subprocess

If using subprocess to execute an xterm on linux, which in turn executes some other process, it seems that Python (2.6.5) will never recognize that the process (xterm) has completed execution. Consider the following code: import subprocess import…
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xterm/vt102 sequences to fill the terminal window, then exit on keypress, clearing whatever was on screen?

I'm trying to wrap my head around VT102 sequences and how such libraries as ncurses work. To give an example, when I open Emacs, it fills the terminal window. When I hit C-x C-c, the program exits and my terminal window looks exactly as it looked…
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How to have a terminal emulator send click drag messages?

I'm an amateur programmer who's interested in adding a click-drag method to the vt320 terminal emulator at http://javassh.org/download/source/de/mud/terminal/vt320.html. I'm looking through the source for mouse press function and came upon…
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Spawned terminal appears on different desktop

I have a python script which starts a new instance in a new terminal window every minute using xterm (see below). I am running solaris with the Java desktop that has multiple desktops(?), if working on a different desktop the new terminal appears…
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Waiting for child process in other terminal works if launched with 'x-terminal-emulator' but not if launched with 'gnome-terminal'

My ultimate goal is to let my python script launch a child process, in another terminal, that runs independently from the parent: When the parent process finishes, the child process should continue. It should not be killed. The parent process…
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Can not access xterm via Gnome-Terminal

Our client wants to somehow call xterm from gnome-terminal and plans to do it on a remote server with a single ssh command. I can access xterm when I ssh to remote server with -X and call gnome-terminal and run xterm command on gnome-terminal. Like…
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Mapping numeric keypad keys in vim

I'm unable to get this mapping to work in vim inside an xterm terminal. :map :echo 'Hello' I can get the same mapping to work fine in gvim. If I issue the above command in vim on a terminal, it accepts it, and it shows up correctly when I…
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How to get xhost on Termux?

I am trying to use tkinter on termux and for in I need xhost. When I run xhost + I get the output xhost not found how would I get xhost on termux so I can run tkinter? Things that dont work: pkg install xhost
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open xterm with allow-send-events set to True

I would like to open xterm from a terminal with the command xterm and specify the parameter allow-send-events(toggle) set to true (without having to do ctrl+click and set it to True manually once xterm is open) Yet, reading through the term…
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emacs: limit number of colors used by font-lock

I have my terminal configured to use the solarized color palette. I would like to simply limit emacs to 8 colors so that font-lock uses the same colors as my terminal. I can accomplish this by running emacs with TERM=xterm-color but this is causing…
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Why xterm did not run in mininet

I have a problem for a week 1-First i download latest mininet vm image. 2-Ran it on virtualbox. 3 Start GUI by typing startx after gui installation. 4-Mininet to pox traffic goes well. **Problem starts after this ** 5-When i need to look traffic in…
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How to set the palette Colors from perl script?

I have a perl script which randomly selects a FG and BG colors for my terminal. I use the following print commands to set the FG and BG on the fly: print "\033]10;\007"; print "\033]11;\007"; I need to set the palette…
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read 3rd button pressed on a xterm console application

I'm trying to read which button was pressed from a console application, but I'm unsuccessful with 3rd (right) button. After enabling mouse tracking with CSI ? 9 h, I get CSI M b x y, where b corresponds to 32 + button_no, but only for left and…
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How to use xterm to launch screen with arguments

I'm currently using mobaxterm to launch xterms to connect to a remote server. I use... xterm screen I use screen because the connection is unreliable so screen allows me to recover sessions. What I really want is to call "screen -RR" to reconnect…
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