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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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difference between SSH -X and ssh -Y

I was SSH'ing into a server by running a code like this: ssh serverUser@serverIP "./runServer" & on the very next line of the script when I started a VM at the client and wrote startX on it, it said: X Error of failed request: Bad Window. After…
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Strange character since last update (>4;2m) in vim

I've recently update vim on ubuntu, and since then, a strange character keep appearing at random time at my cursor place. It seems to appear when I do nothing for some seconds. The character is >4;2m and I can't understand the logic of its…
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anyway change the cursor "vertical line" instead of a box?

Is there any way to change the cursor to a "vertical line" instead of a box in XTERM? box: ■ line: |
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what is terminal escape sequence for ctrl + arrow (left, right,...) in TERM=linux

I am building a terminal window in a browser (sth. like ajaxterm) and don't know which escape sequence to send to ssh tunnel (opened via paramiko.SSHClient().invoke_shell(term='linux')). I have found a key logger and tried it in a terminal with…
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What has happened to startx on Cygwin?

I just had my desktop computer replaced. Both my previous computer and this one have Windows XP. In order to work with the many Linux servers we have, I installed Cygwin along with its xterm package. However, I cannot run startx to start the…
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MobaXterm - reset terminal screen

I need to Reset my MobaXterm screen after some time working, however 'clear' and 'reset' commands wont work as if I was on a linux server. Anyone have some tip?
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Emacs, unicode, xterm mouse escape sequences, and wide terminals

Short version: When using emacs' xterm-mouse-mode, Somebody (emacs? bash? xterm?) intercepts xterm's control sequences and replaces them with \0. This is a pain on wide monitors because only the first 223 columns have mouse. What is the culprit,…
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vim screen restore

i use vim in screen for development and if i quit vim, the current screen-content stays there... outside the screen (xterm), exiting vim will restore the previous buffer (like: [ server1 ]~$ cmd some stuff, some stuff [ server1 ]~$ cmd […
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256 color terminal library for Ruby?

Is there a gem like 'Term::ANSIColor' which works with 256 color terminals? The perl script 256colors2.pl works great in my terminal, and I'd like to use some of these colors in my ruby scripts without manually inserting the ANSI codes.
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Change default XTerm font size in Cygwin

Anyone know how to change the default font size when you open a new XTERM windown in Cygwin? I have found references of putting information into the ~/.Xresources file but that file doesn't exist for me... Thanks
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How can the size of the tk embedded xterm be dynamic?

One can write a simple python script to embed an xterm into a tk frame: from Tkinter import * import subprocess root = Tk() termf = Frame(root, height=800, width=1000) termf.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=YES) wid = termf.winfo_id() After the window is…
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Can I get terminal title? (or otherwise restore old one)

Setting terminal title is easy with echo -e "\e]0;some title\007". Works with pretty much every terminal program. What I want is to set terminal title when some program starts - and restore old one when it finishes. Is this possible?
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Why am I seeing only 8 colors in terminal (xfce-terminal)?

I'm running Xubuntu 13.04 and I want to use Vim as my default editor for everything. I have downloaded many vim color schemas and tried them out, but all of them don't look like the official screenshot. For example, vim's own color schema - desert…
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Emacs/xterm color annoyance on Linux

I'm using emacs in a console window both on my local Linux box and on the login node of a remote cluster. I use emacs regularly, and I've got the foreground color set to white in my .emacs file like so: (set-foreground-color…
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How does Vim guess background color on xterm?

Vim has the ability to correctly guess the background color of an Xterm in order to set its internal option bg to either dark or white according to the terminal's one. Vim is able to do that correctly only when TERM is set to either…
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